[PHP] Strip "a href" html code from links

liam_d · Jun 18, 2008

Hi all i need a good way to strip html hyperlink code from a link and just display the actual address, anyone got a good code to do it?

Thanks!

Bruce_KD · Jun 18, 2008

Some Regular Expression fun.
Its in php currently, but the pattern should be consistent across most languages.

Code:

$string="<a href='http://www.google.com'>Google</a> is a search engine.\n <br />";
preg_match("/\<a href\='([^']+)'\>([^\<]+)\<\/a\>/", $string, $matches);
echo $matches[1];

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