stringregexp searching help

[jvds]

hi, i would like to know if i can set exclusions in a patern of stringregexp

$test =' <<--more-text--<span class="name"><a title="Maltem" href="/maltem_/fol"> Maltem</a></span>--some-more-text-->> '
$asResult = StringRegExp($test, '" href="/([\x00-\x7F]{1,})">', 1)
If @error == 0 Then
    MsgBox(0, "SRE Example 6 Result", $asResult[0])
EndIf

in this example my patern only focus starting from " href="/ and  "> but i want to include a longer string for the pattern

example=  '<span class="name"><a title=" Maltem " href="/maltem_/fol"> Maltem</a></span> '

but the pattern title item(Maltem) and text item(Maltem) may change along with the href(/maltem_/fol) item but i only whant to extract the href item

so I want to search the pattern to be like this ' <span class="name"><a title="EXCLUDE_FROM_SEARCH" href="([x00-x7F]{1,})"> EXCLUDE_FROM_SEARCH </a></span>'

is that possible to do with stringregexp?

tnx

[jchd]

I don't understand what you're asking for. The pattern in your example does only extract the href part.

[jvds]

it works but i want to use a larger pattern but ignore some parts of the pattern, example:
' <span class="name"><a title="EXCLUDE_FROM_SEARCH" href="([x00-x7F]{1,})"> EXCLUDE_FROM_SEARCH </a></span>'

[jchd]

Look at what . (dot) means in a pattern by reading the StringRegExp page.

Still unclear why.

RegExping in html flow will always be less reliable than using IE functions.