Group Replace in javascript Regex

Question

I have anchor tags in my html. The value of href attribute starts with either ' or ". I want to replace javascript:window.location.replace(' href value and ').

sample_input

"<a href="xyz.com" attr="pqrs"> text </a> \n <a href='xyz1.com' attr="pqrs"> text1 </a>"

desired_output

"<a href="javascript:window.location.replace('xyz.com')" attr="pqrs"> text </a> \n <a href='"xyz.com"' attr="pqrs"> text1 </a>"

See https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/128165 for why you should not use regex — Gabriele Petrioli, Jan 27 '20 at 08:45
You can directly use the single quote inside double (like `""`) why you need to replace it? — Narayan, Jan 27 '20 at 08:48
Does this answer your question? [RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags) — Luca Kiebel, Jan 27 '20 at 11:21

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 27 '20 at 09:05

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Try the below code.

sample_input.replace(new RegExp('(<a.?href=)([\'\"])(.?)([\'\"])', 'g'), "\$1\"javascript:window.location.replace('\$3')\"")

answered Jan 27 '20 at 09:05

Karmveer Singh

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