How can I use regular expression to grab an 'img' tag?

Question

I want to grab an img tag from text returned from JSON data like that. I want to grab this from a string:

Answer 1

Please note you shouldn't use regular expressions to parse HTML for the various reasons

<img\s+[^>]*src="([^"]*)"[^>]*>

Or use Jsoup...

String html = "<img class=\"img\" src=\"https://fbcdn-photos-c-a.akamaihd.net/
               hphotos-ak-frc3/1239478_598075296936250_1910331324_s.jpg\" alt=\"\" />";

Document doc = Jsoup.parse(html);
Element img = doc.select("img").first();
String src = img.attr("src");

System.out.println(src);

Answer 2

Your regex doesn't match the string, because it's missing the closing /.

Edit - No, the / is not necessary, so your regex should have worked. But you can relax it a bit like below.

Slightly modified:

 <img\s[^>]*?src\s*=\s*['\"]([^'\"]*?)['\"][^>]*?>

Answer 3

You could simply use this expression to match an img tag as in the example :

<img([\w\W]+?)/>