Regular expression

TextMatch.java

public static void main(String[] args) {
	String text = "<a href=\"http://www.google.com\">google</a>";
	Pattern p = Pattern.compile("<a href=\"(.*?)\">");
	Matcher m = p.matcher(text);
	if (m.find()) { // use find(), don't use matches()
		System.out.println(m.group(1));
	}
}

TextMatch.js

var pattern = /<a href="(.*?)">/;
var text = '<a href="http://www.google.com">google</a>'
var matches = pattern.exec(text);
if (matches) {
	console && console.log(matches[1]);
}

TextMatch.py

import re

def main():
	text = '<a href="http://www.google.com">google</a>'
	m = re.search('<a href="(.*?)">', text)
	if m:
		print m.group(1)

main()