RegEx Help

[boomers]

Hey there...

Im trying to make a regex query that will strip down all the non-relevant HTML to leave just the hyperlink info.

An example of the hyperlink HTML is...

<a href="http://www.url.com/blah.htm" class=underline><b>Vist My Page</b></a>

And all I want to be left with is the actual URL http://www.url.com/blah.htm And the wording for this link 'Visit My Page'

Obviously the link changes as there are alot in the actual HTML of the page... as does the text for it, but theyre always inbetween the bold tags.

So far I think ive got the URL by using:
http(s)?://([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]+(/[\w- ./?%&=]*)?

But Im not 100% sure on how to get the text of the link along with it. Any help would be greatly appreciated

If it makes any difference im planning on using this with .net

 

[tm]

Perhaps this might be useful to you.

<?php
// $document should contain an HTML document.
// This will remove HTML tags, javascript sections
// and white space. It will also convert some
// common HTML entities to their text equivalent.
$search = array ('@<script[^>]*?>.*?</script>@si', // Strip out javascript
                 '@<[\/\!]*?[^<>]*?>@si',          // Strip out HTML tags
                 '@([\r\n])[\s]+@',                // Strip out white space
                 '@&(quot|#34);@i',                // Replace HTML entities
                 '@&(amp|#38);@i',
                 '@&(lt|#60);@i',
                 '@&(gt|#62);@i',
                 '@&(nbsp|#160);@i',
                 '@&(iexcl|#161);@i',
                 '@&(cent|#162);@i',
                 '@&(pound|#163);@i',
                 '@&(copy|#169);@i',
                 '@&#(\d+);@e');                    // evaluate as php

$replace = array ('',
                 '',
                 '\1',
                 '"',
                 '&',
                 '<',
                 '>',
                 ' ',
                 chr(161),
                 chr(162),
                 chr(163),
                 chr(169),
                 'chr(\1)');

$text = preg_replace($search, $replace, $document);
?>

Found on http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php