Dear friends,

 I am writing following regex: (http\:\/\/news.*\&amp\;url\=)

to extract 2 matches from:

 <url>http://news.thirdparty.com/intl/en_us/images/news_res.gif</url><link>http://news.thirdparty.com/</link></image><item><title>State Department - Hindu</title><link>http://news.thirdparty.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us/0-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200810090926.htm&amp;cid=1253751878&amp;ei=5LXtSOjOAqGO6AP9yby5Ag&amp;usg=AFQjCNGAkpKActP6yAiup4VQxtkMZrEbjA</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:51:34 GMT</pubDate>&lt;a href="http://news.thirdparty.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us/0-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200810090926.htm&amp;cid=1253751878&amp;ei=5LXtSOjOAqGO6AP9yby5Ag&amp;usg=AFQjCNGAkpKActP6yAiup4VQxtkMZrEbjA"&gt;

But it is giving one match. Please guide me.

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Dear friends,

 I am writing following regex: (http\:\/\/news.*\&amp\;url\=)

to extract 2 matches from:

 <url>http://news.thirdparty.com/intl/en_us/images/news_res.gif</url><link>http://news.thirdparty.com/</link></image><item><title>State Department - Hindu</title><link>http://news.thirdparty.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us/0-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200810090926.htm&amp;cid=1253751878&amp;ei=5LXtSOjOAqGO6AP9yby5Ag&amp;usg=AFQjCNGAkpKActP6yAiup4VQxtkMZrEbjA</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:51:34 GMT</pubDate>&lt;a href="http://news.thirdparty.com/news/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us/0-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200810090926.htm&amp;cid=1253751878&amp;ei=5LXtSOjOAqGO6AP9yby5Ag&amp;usg=AFQjCNGAkpKActP6yAiup4VQxtkMZrEbjA"&gt;

 

But it is giving one match. Please guide me.

Is all that escaping really necessary? The following regex will give two matches:

http://news\..*?url=

But I can't imagine that is alll the information you need to retrieve. If this is so, please explain in more detail what exactly you're trying to match.

Good luck.