Grabbing the href attribute of an A element

Question

Trying to find the links on a page.

my regex is:

/]*href=(\\\"\\\'??)([^\\\"\\\' >]*?)[^>]*>(.*)<\\/a>/

Answer 1

I agree with Gordon, you MUST use an HTML parser to parse HTML. But if you really want a regex you can try this one :

/^

This matches at the begining of the string, followed by any number of any char (non greedy) .*? then href= followed by the link surrounded by either " or '

$str = 'what?';
preg_match('/^

Output:

array(3) {
  [0]=>
  string(37) "what?"
  [1]=>
  string(1) """
  [2]=>
  string(4) "that"
}