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

[liam_d]

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]

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

$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];

Bruce