[solved] Regex fail - "(?<=href)(.*?)(?=class)"

[gin]

This should be easy, but I can't figure it out. I'm just trying to get the content between the words a href and class. I lost my code due to a ssd death....

The simple version, "(?<=href)(.*?)(?=class)", fails...

the version I actually want is the following (grabs a url)

s pattern="(?<=<a href=.)(.*?)(?=.class)"

the . after href and before class are to match any character since I don't know how to escape a " character.

Thanks.

[gin]

pattern="(?=http://www.domain.com/video)(.*?)(?=..class=)"

I had to change the preceded by code from (?<=) to (?=)

No idea why this would work, but it does.