Title: Advanced href search throwing syntax error
Last modified: June 16, 2017

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# Advanced href search throwing syntax error

 *  [Kethlak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kethlak/)
 * (@kethlak)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/advanced-href-search-throwing-syntax-error/)
 * I’m trying to track links using the pattern [href *= “abc”] (basically, find 
   links where the “href” attribute includes the pattern “abc”). The details there
   don’t matter too much. What’s happening is it’s throwing a syntax error because
   when it gets put into the wpflow ga events array, the quotation marks are being
   escaped as “& quot ;” html entities. How can I prevent that from happening?
    -  This topic was modified 8 years, 11 months ago by [Kethlak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kethlak/).

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 *  Plugin Author [yuvalo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yuvalo/)
 * (@yuvalo)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/advanced-href-search-throwing-syntax-error/#post-9308841)
 * Hi [@kethlak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kethlak/),
 * I’ve been away for a while and I am sorry for reading this ticket just now.
    
   Is this still an issue? From what I can see, your quotes are curly, which may
   cause an issue. If this is not the case on the website, can you please go to 
   our contact page at [https://wpflow.com/contact](https://wpflow.com/contact) 
   and send us your configuration export file? Just open a ticket and reply with
   an attachment.
 * Thanks,
 * Yuval

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/advanced-href-search-throwing-syntax-error/#post-9308841)
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