I found a weird webpage that has link targets that include quotes in the fragment part (after the #), such as <a href="/#A "dumb-ass" fragment">. I decided to try to handle links like that for my site mapper. Basically, I'm considering everything in an anchor tag from the first quote to the last to be the target when there is only one equal sign. That condition isn't shown below. Below is the regex I've been using to delete the quotes within the fragment portion of a target. I've tried it with and without the c modifier. Why does it only delete the quote before dumb-ass when used without the "for" loop? It works perfectly, removing both inner quotes, when I include the loop, but as a stand alone regex, even with the g modifier, only one quote gets deleted. How should I be doing this? Maybe I'm just tired, but I have the feeling I don't know regexes as well as I thought I did. 

for ($a=0; $a<3; $a++)
{
         $line[$count] =~ s/(href\s*=\s*(["'])[^"'#]*?#[^"']*?)\2(.*\2
+\s*>)/$1$3/isgc;
}

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