clean words with regex

[mraza]

Hi,

I have some text coming like this

this is text <a href=""> School </a> and 
this is <a href=""> another text </a> and this what i need 
to remove <a href="">http://somelink...</a> also

I wants to remove all href tags but leave inner text if it is not an http link, i have this regex but this remove all of my text but as above example i wants to keep "School" and "another text".

results should like like this after  regex.

this is text School and
this is another text and this what i need
to remove also

.

 

regex i have

preg_replace("/<a[^>]+href[^>]+>.*\<\/a\>/", "", $text);

but this remove all href tags with inner text.

thanks for any help

[.josh]

$text = preg_replace('~</?a[^>]*>|(ht|f)tps?:[^ ]*~i','',$text);

[mraza]

Thanks for help again