How to replace all links in html to markup
Regular expression to replace href to markup
I recently moved my blog from WordPress to
Hugo
, which involved a lot of content fixing. One of the problems was that not all HTML code was correctly transferred to markup during the export. So I needed fix (replace) all pending <a href="https://spidersoft.com.au">spidersoft</a> to [spidersoft](https://spidersoft.com.au).
What we need are just two simple regular expressions.
One to find links
<a.*?href="(.+?)".*?>(.+?)</a>
Second one to replace them in reverse order
[$2]($1)
You can run this in basically any IDE - Sublime will do the job, I was using PHPStorm