[solved] Going through the links (<a> tags) in a QTextEdit

[silviubogan]

I have a QTextEdit in which the user can insert text and links (<a>, anchors). I need a way to loop through the links entered by the user and also to know their context (the text before and after every link). I tried going through all the QTextBlocks in the corresponding QTextDocument and use the QTextBlock::text() method but what I see are the lines in the QTextEdit and the links are converted to plain text. What I want to do with the links is to make a function similar with QTextEdit::toPlainText but which prints links in the text in a different way, such as {{http://www.google.com/}} (between two {{ and }} for example).

[Chris Kawa]

An ugly regexp might do the job:
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auto text = textEdit->toHtml();
QRegExp exp("<\sa\s+[^>]href\s=\s\"([^\"])\"\s>(.)<\/\sa\s*>");
text.replace(exp, "{{\1}}");
textEdit->setHtml(text);
@

[silviubogan]

Thank you. Your code worked well. I also used this statement
@exp.setMinimal(true);@

before this one:
@text.replace(exp, "{{\1}}");@

[Eddy]

Thanks for posting your solution here for the benefit of others.

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