Extracting links using regex via php

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need a little help with the regexp i make... have some text where links are encoded like

[NameLink ->link] or [NameLink->link]

The link can be without http:// or www. Tried to get it using this pattern

/\[.{1,}\-\>.{1,}\]/

but if there are 2 such encoded links in a row then it doesn't separate them and takes also the content between two links. Can someone tell me what's the problem? Thank you

Can you give an example of your input data, and then an example of what you would want out of that data? — Matt
– Matt, Commented Mar 13, 2012 at 10:15

Jonas Schäfer · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-13 10:21:35Z

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Use +? instead of {1,}. Also, have a read on greedy vs. nongreedy.

You may want to strip spaces using \s* around your .+?, this allows for both [NameLink -> link] and [NameLink ->link].

answered Mar 13, 2012 at 10:21

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