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Whups, didn't see the mandatory title="" in the match. Jumped the gun.

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Re^5: Parsing out URLs with regex (diedotstar)
by tye (Sage) on May 14, 2003 at 19:56 UTC

    Note that such isn't really the problem. Putting nearly anything after or before the .*? in a regex can cause you problems. Even just 

        /<a href="(.*?)">/i

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    will match way too much by matching way too early against 
        '<a href="oops" lots of stuff <a href="ok">'
    '<a href="oops" > d'oh! whitespace! <a href="ok">'
    '<a href="oops, break a browser? <a href="ok">'

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