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copied!<p>Here's how to do it with <a href="http://jsoup.org" rel="nofollow">jSoup HTML parser</a>:</p> <pre><code><cfset jsoup = createObject('java','org.jsoup.Jsoup') /> <cfset Dom = jsoup.parse( InputHtml ) /> <cfset Dom.select('a[href]').attr('href','{replaced}') /> <cfset NewHtml = Dom.html() /> </code></pre> <p>(On CF9 and earlier, this requires placing the jsoup's jar in CF's lib directory, or using <a href="http://javaloader.riaforge.org" rel="nofollow">JavaLoader</a>.)</p> <p>Using a HTML parser is usually better than using regex, not least because it's easier to maintain and understand.</p> <p>Here's an <em>imperfect</em> way of doing it with a regex:</p> <pre><code><cfset NewHtml = InputHtml.replaceAll ( '(?<=<a.{0,99}?\shref\s{0,99}?=\s{0,99}?)(?:"[^"]+|''[^'']+)(["'])' , '$1{replaced}$1' )/> </code></pre> <p>Which hopefully demonstrates why using a tool such as jsoup is definitely the way to go...</p> <p><em>(btw, the above is using the Java regex engine (via <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#replaceAll" rel="nofollow">string.replaceAll</a>), so it can use the lookbehind functionality, which doesn't exist in CF's built-in regex (rereplace/rematch/etc))</em></p> <p><hr/> <strong>Update, based on the new code sample you've provided...</strong></p> <p>Here is an example of how to use jsoup for what you're doing - it might still need some updates (depending on what {clickurl} is eventually going to be doing), but it currently functions the same as your sample code is attempting:</p> <pre><code><cfset jsoup = createObject('java','org.jsoup.Jsoup') /> <cfset links = jsoup.parse( Arguments.HtmlCode )  .select('a[href^=http]').attr('href',' {clickurl}')  .outerHtml().split('(?<=</a>)(?!$)') /> <cfdump var=#links# /> </code></pre> <p>That middle bit is all a single cfset, but I split it up and added comments for clarity. (You could of course do this with multiple variables and 3+ cfsets if you preferred that.)</p> <p>Again, it's not a regex, because what you're doing involves parsing HTML, and regex is not designed for parsing tag-based syntax, so isn't very good at it - there are too many quirks and variations with HTML and describing them in a single regex gets very complicated very quickly.</p>

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