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'm not sure what you're trying to do here, but if you're trying to validate the link then look at PHP's filter_var()

If you really need to use a regular expression then check out this tool, it may help: http://regex.larsolavtorvik.com/