PHP Regex - Find url and text in html anchor tags

Question

Hi there I was wondering whether someone know how to remove both the url and the link text from all anchor tags in a big paragraph of text. once remove if I could store them in an array for later use.

Im sure this is possible but I really struggle with regex.

Hopefully there is someone out there who has came across this before or who has some good knowledge on this.

Thank you

Answer 1

Regex wasn't really designed to be a perfect html parser. Have you tried doing a simpleXML load string?

http://php.net/manual/en/function.simplexml-load-string.php

But for regex, check out these:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/135151/whats-the-best-way-to-remove-br-tags-from-the-end-of-a-string

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/133571/how-to-convert-multiple-br-tag-to-a-single-br-tag-in-php