Extract inner text from anchor tag string using a regular expression in JavaScript

Question

I am new to angular js . I have regex which gets all the anchor tags. My reg ex is

/]*>([^<]+)<\\/a>/g
         


        

Answer 1

Why are you trying to reinvent the wheel?

You are trying to parse the HTML string with a regex it will be a very complicated task, just use DOM or jQuery to get the links contents, they are made for this.

• Put the HTML string as the HTML of a jQuery/DOM element.

• Then fetch this created DOM element to get all the a elements inside it and return their contents in an array.

This is how should be your code:

var str = 'abc.jagadale@gmail.com';

var results = [];
$("
").html(str).find("a").each(function(l) {
  results.push($(this).text());
});

Demo:

var str = 'abc.jagadale@gmail.com';

var results = [];
$("
").html(str).find("a").each(function(l) {
  results.push($(this).text());
});
console.log(results);