Regular expression not working (all characters are shifted)

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Hi there,

I am using a regular expression to look for the url of the 'visually similar' button on google. This is the regex I use: "href=((?:(?!href).)*?)>Vis"

and it works perfectly when testing on https://regexr.com/ this is some example to-match text:

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enu-panel" role="menu" tabindex="-1" jsaction="keydown:Xiq7wd;mouseover:pKPowd;mouseout:O9bKS" data-ved="2ahUKEwjRitfP9vXvAhXf_7sIHViuBewQqR8wAXoECAMQBQ"><li class="action-menu-item" role="menuitem"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:8lDNWm_duSMJ:https://www.trustedshops.com/+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=de" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:8lDNWm_duSMJ:https://www.trustedshops.com/%2B%26cd%3D2%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dde&ved=2ahUKEwjRitfP9vXvAhXf_7sIHViuBewQIDABegQIAxAG">Cached<div class="IsZvec"><span class="aCOpRe">Trusted Shops is the European Trustmark for online shops with money-back guarantee for consumers. Trusted Shops offers a comprehensive service to raise ...<div class="ULSxyf"><div jsmodel="gpo5Gf" class="LnbJhc" data-count="28" style="position:relative" data-iu="1" data-hveid="CAIQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwjRitfP9vXvAhXf_7sIHViuBewQ8w0oAHoECAIQAA"><div class="e2BEnf U7izfe mfMhoc"><a class="ekf0x hSQtef" href="/search?tbs=simg:CAESiQIJQs8eCt9yzs0a_1QELELCMpwgaOgo4CAQSFNcy_1TP2GfwQ9zXEDcYqnTbjEq4kGhqVVToFJUcTvzott-6Sl5Qp4R6jBL5G5bKsuyAFMAQMCxCOrv4IGgoKCAgBEgTTC8hDDAsQne3BCRqdAQofCgxvZmZpY2UgY2hhaXLapYj2AwsKCS9tLzA4cTF4cAofCgxzd2l2ZWwgY2hhaXLapYj2AwsKCS9tLzBncTZreAoiCg9mdXJuaXR1cmUgc3R5bGXapYj2AwsKCS9qLzl3MHFqcwobCghmb3IgdGVlbtqliPYDCwoJL2EvNnEzMDY3ChgKBXNvbGlk2qWI9gMLCgkvYS8zbWcxY20M&q=trusted+shop&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjRitfP9vXvAhXf_7sIHViuBewQjJkEegQIAhAB"><div class="iv236"><span class="iJddsb" style="height:20px;width:20px"><svg focusable="false" viewbox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M14 13l4 5H6l4-4 1.79 1.78L14 13zm-6.01-2.99A2 2 0 0 0 8 6a2 2 0 0 0-.01 4.01zM22 5v14a3 3 0 0 1-3 2.99H5c-1.64 0-3-1.36-3-3V5c0-1.64 1.36-3 3-3h14c1.65 0 3 1.36 3 3zm-2.01 0a1 1 0 0 0-1-1H5a1 1 0 0 0-1 1v14a1 1 0 0 0 1 1h7v-.01h7a1 1 0 0 0 1-1V5"><div class="iJ1Kvb"><h3 class="GmE3X" aria-level="2" role="heading">Visually similar images<div style="padding-bottom:0" id="iur">

<div jsmodel="" jscontroller="IkchZc" jsaction="PdWSXe:h5M12e;rcuQ6b:npT2md" jsdata="X2sNs;;CiOOHU"><div data-h="130" data-nr="4" style="margin-right:-2px;margin-bottom:-2px"><div jsname="dTDiAc" class="eA0Zlc qN5nNb tapJqb ivg-i" data-docid="DrX4TNBpITAGoM" jsdata="XZxcdf;DrX4TNBpITAGoM;CiOOJI" data-ved="2ahUKEwjRitfP9vXvAhXf_7sIHViuBewQ5r0BegQIIRAA"><a href="/search?q=trusted+shop&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&tbs=simg:CAESiQIJQs8eCt9yzs0a_1QELELCMpwgaOgo4CAQSFNcy_1TP2GfwQ9zXEDcYqnTbjEq4kGhqVVToFJUcTvzott-6Sl5Qp4R6jBL5G5bKsuyAFMAQMCxCOrv4IGgoKCAgBEgTTC8hDDAsQne3BCRqdAQofCgxvZmZpY2UgY2hhaXLapYj2AwsKCS9tLzA4cTF4cAofCgxzd2l2ZWwgY2hhaXLapYj2AwsKCS9tLzBncTZreAoiCg9mdXJuaXR1cmUgc3R5bGXapYj2AwsKCS9qLzl3MHFqcwobCghmb3IgdGVlbtqliPYDCwoJL2EvNnEzMDY3ChgKBXNvbGlk2qWI9gMLCgkvYS8zbWcxY20M&fir=DrX4TNBpITAGoM%252CO1KPcBx95JlNxM%252C&vet=1&usg=AI4_-

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When using this exact same regex with your swift Regex expression I do not get the expected result, but I get the following:

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FNcy_1TP2GfwQ9zXEDcYqnTbjEq4kGhqVVToFJUcTvzott-6Sl5Qp4R6jBL5G5bKsuyAFMAQMCxCOrv4IGgoKCAgBEgTTC8hDDAsQne3BCRqdAQofCgxvZmZpY2UgY2hhaXLapYj2AwsKCS9tLzA4cTF4cAofCgxzd2l2ZWwgY2hhaXLapYj2AwsKCS9tLzBncTZreAoiCg9mdXJuaXR1cmUgc3R5bGXapYj2AwsKCS9qLzl3MHFqcwobCghmb3IgdGVlbtqliPYDCwoJL2EvNnEzMDY3ChgKBXNvbGlk2qWI9gMLCgkvYS8zbWcxY20M&q=trusted+shop&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjRitfP9vXvAhXf_7sIHViuBewQjJkEegQIAhAB"><div class="iv236"><span class="iJddsb" style="height:20px;width:20px"><svg focusable="false" viewbox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M14 13l4 5H6l4-4 1.79 1.78L14 13zm-6.01-2.99A2 2 0 0 0 8 6a2 2 0 0 0-.01 4.01zM22 5v14a3 3 0 0 1-3 2.99H5c-1.64 0-3-1.36-3-3V5c0-1.64 1.36-3 3-3h14c1.65 0 3 1.36 3 3zm-2.01 0a1 1 0 0 0-1-1H5a1 1 0 0 0-1 1v14a1 1 0 0 0 1 1h7v-.01h7a1 1 0 0 0 1-1V5">

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As you can see it somehow captures beyond the last capture group ">Vis". And additionally there are a lot of characters missing from the start of the expected capture.. all the characters next to the "href=".

I tried a lot to rewrite my regex, but as it is confirmed to be working on regex testers I must conclude that there is something wrong with this Regex cocoapod.

Please help! Thank you A link to the regex helper tool: regexr.com/5qfv4