Java Regex doesn't work with special chars

Question

I got a problem with my parser. I want to read an image-link on a webiste and this normally works fine. But today I got a link that contains special chars and the usual regex di

Answer 1

This probably caused by the newline within the tag. The . character won't match it.

Did you consider not using regex to parse HTML? Using regex for HTML parsing is notoriously fragile construct. Please consider using a parsing library such as JSoup for this.