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DiapDealer · 08-10-2014, 08:34 AM

Earlier I mentioned that I was worried that:

Code:

</?a ?([^>]+)?>

might find other tags that started with 'a'--and indeed it does. The addr, abbr, and area tags are probably able to be dismissed, but the <aside> tag is one that I'm sure we're only going to see more and more of. And my regex will include it.

So for the paranoid/pedantic type (like myself), it's probably best to use:

Code:

</?a\b([^>]+)?>

instead (should work in pretty-much all regex flavors).

The \b just matches a "word" boundary so that no other tags that start with 'a' will be caught up in the match.

08-10-2014, 08:34 AM	#31
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 28,705 Karma: 205039118 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	Earlier I mentioned that I was worried that: Code: </?a ?([^>]+)?> might find other tags that started with 'a'--and indeed it does. The addr, abbr, and area tags are probably able to be dismissed, but the <aside> tag is one that I'm sure we're only going to see more and more of. And my regex will include it. So for the paranoid/pedantic type (like myself), it's probably best to use: Code: </?a\b([^>]+)?> instead (should work in pretty-much all regex flavors). The \b just matches a "word" boundary so that no other tags that start with 'a' will be caught up in the match.