need help with basics

[dacs]

im having a hard time with regex... how do i get the actual text which is the website for example http://www.test.com from this string line?

<a href="http://www.test.com/" class=l>

 

or i need to get the string between

 

<a href=" and " class=l>

 

by the way, the URL is not constant

[effigy]

Have you tried the references and tutorials here?

 

<pre>
<?php
$string = '<a href="http://www.test.com/" class=l>';
preg_match('/<a[^>]+?href="(.+?)"/', $string, $matches);
echo $matches[1];
?>
</pre>

[squiggerz]

<a href="http://www.test.com/" class=l>

 

could try:

 

"/(<a href=.)+(.*?)?(..class=l>)+/ism"

 

easier to read I think, but it stores your url value in $matches[2]

 

let me know if I'm off, I just learned regex over the weekend lol

 

oh, regexlib dot com has a nice regex tester as well if you need it, comes in handy.