Pulling a URL From an Anchor

[ryanfait]

I'm trying to pull a URL from an HTML anchor. The following regex used with preg_replace works for everything except <a href="/">. I just need it to grab the / from inside the href="". It correctly pulls out <a href="/page/">.

 

<?php
$pull_address = "/<a[\s]{1}href\=\"([\w\.0-9\/\-\%\?\=^#]{1}[\w\.0-9\/\-\%\?\=&;]+)(#[\w\.0-9\/\-\%\?\=&;]*)?\"(.*)?>/";

$loc = preg_replace($pull_address, "$1", $anchor);
?>

[effigy]

/<a[^>]+href="(.+?)"/