regex c# extracting url from tag

Question

I am trying to extract URL from an tag, however, instead of getting https://website.com/-id1, I am getting tag link text. Here is my code:

string text=\"

        

Answer 1

Try this:

var input = "MyLinkMyLink2";
var r = new Regex("");
var output = r.Matches(input);
var urls = new List();
foreach (var item in output) {
    urls.Add((item as Match).Groups[1].Value);
}

It will find all a tags and extract their href values then store it in urls List.

Explanation

match begining of tag
.*?href= match anything until href=
"(.*?)"match and capture anything inside ""
.*?> match end of tag