Posted by Thomas Mlynarczyk on 11/13/07 15:49

Also sprach artev:

> I would like to extract a piece of string inner oneother;
> how rule for extraction all text inner this ">.......</a>
> example if I have this string
> <li><a href="http://localhost/namesitos/index.php?pg=id=b8f">Title
> &amp; Test</a></li>
> the code will return Title &amp; Test


To get just the text inside an <a> element, you can try something like this
(untested):

preg_match( '°\<a\s+[^>]+\>(.*?)\</a\>°', $text, $matches )

$matches[1] will then contain the text.

But if you want to remove all HTML, have a look at PHP's strip_tags()
function.

Greetings,
Thomas

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