Need help with RegEx string..how can I get this element?

I am able to get ALL id's on the page but I wanted to be able to get this particular string of html


Here is my current Regex: id=.*"

This get ALL the freaking Id's on the page.

I've tried using regexr but it's not giving me any results. Any ideas on how I can get this to only show me:


id="password"

Thanks

you get indexed to this string for ex : size="25" name="password" and make a substring from this index to (size="25" name="password" - "value"(index)
like substring(ind1-(ind2-ind1)) the return will be id="password"

What language are you using?

Can you be more specific? Do you need to match the whole <input> tag that contains the id 'password'? Also, which language are you using?

It doesn't matter what programming language he wants to use. Regex is platform independent.

Here you go:


You're welcome

Once you really learn how to use RegEx, your life will never be the same - seriously

I highly recommend rubular - it's a great resource & testing platform for regular expressions.

The above snippet in English means: take 1 or more non-whitespace characters, including the doublequote

read the description on rubular - bottom of the page and you will learn more tricks for your scraping

I don't know what you're trying to do exactly, but I think using XPath would be even easier.

Nice one ranktrackerpro.

I would have gone with this straight forward one

id=".+?"

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but yours is more elegant

The reason asking for the language are not the minor differences in regex implementations that appear, but to provide a snippet. So, if he had said C#, he 'd get something like this

ranktrackerpro said:

Regex is platform independent.

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There are different flavors of regex.