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Help with Regex

HI im trying to extract this url from an email using regex. My Regex string is

/href=\"(https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/e\/v2\/S+)/g

The string I'm looking for is:

href="https://www.linkedin.com/e/v2?e=4mwol-kx0cskhe-b2&lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Aemail_email_jobs_new_applicant_01%3BQXTCX4qcT7OfUsLaH3cuLA%3D%3D&t=plh&midToken=AQG80kTcNtwiXA&ek=email_jobs_new_applicant_01&li=0&m=email_jobs_new_applicant&ts=job_posting_download_resume&urlhash=dt4R&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Elinkedin%2Ecom%2Ftalent%2Fapi%2FtalentResumes%3FapplicationId%3D8549340446%26tokenId%3D1524127108%26checkSum%3DAQGg2sABm2nopxlP8EhnWBw3EtcLXz1U"

My issue is the string href="https://www.linkedin.com/e/v2 is used a few times in the email so the regex is flawed. It matches up to three times

I have some options to consider, Can i have regex stop after it finds 1 match? Or can i add that it must contain the string download_resume?

Language is Javascript

thanks in advance

Terry Woods

Try removing the g at the end, and see if that just gives the one match.

Dr. Klahn

The separating periods must be escaped. As it stands this part of the regex allows incorrect matches. That section should be:

https:\/\/www\.linkedin\.com

Make that change and see what happens.

louisfr

I think this part might be wrong:

\/S+

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Maybe you meant

\S+

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