php regex to get string inside a tag

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I need a regex that will give me the string inside an href tag

For example i need to extract NAME in the following:

<a href="Somedomain1.com">NAME</a>

And the link inside href is not constant

My regex

'/<a href="(.+)">/'

it give me the link inside the href only. and I don't know how to get the name of a url

Thank you in advance

harry · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-31 15:35:15Z

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'<a\shref="(.*)">(.*)<\/a>'

echo matches[1]; // url
echo matches[2]; // NAME

answered Dec 31, 2016 at 15:35

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-20 09:12:55Z

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Using RegEx is strongly not recommended for parsing HTML. It would be much better if you do that by a HTML parser. This is my favorite. Anyway, if you insist on to do this by RegEx, try this pattern:

/<a href=[^>]+>(.*)<\/a>/

Now, $1 contains expected result.

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answered Dec 31, 2016 at 16:40

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Beinghuman Over a year ago

Thank you, for your answer that regex did work so thanks for that. and thank you for suggesting another method as I am new to programming I didin't know other methods exists so I will definitely check the HTML Parser

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