Anyone here good with regex?

[fly]

Jesus, why does this stuff have to be so complex?

I need to search for a HTML URL (<a href="blah.com">Blah</a>), then replace it with just Blah.

Can anyone even help search for an HTML anchor? I have two regex strings that I've found on the internets so far, both seem to work for some URLs. They are:

<a[ ]{0,}href=[\"']{0,}([a-zA-Z0-9/:~._#]{0,})[\"']{0,}>([^<]{0,})</a>

<a[^>]*>.*?</a>

Anyone?

 

[fly]

Okay, according to http://regexlib.com/RETester.aspx

<a[^>]*>.*?</a>

works for all anchors. How do I just pull out whats in between <a href> and </a>???

 

[fly]

stream of consciousness...

Okay, I think I figured it out with this website: http://macromates.com/textmate/manual/regular_expressions

Should be

 message$ = str_replace("<a[^>]*>(.*?)</a>", $1, message$);

edit: wtf, vB won't let me use PHP formatted variables.

 

[fly]

Okay, now my problem is getting regex to work inside of PHP's str_replace function. It seems that it won't.

edit: Looks like I need preg_replace, but that doesn't work either. Argh. PHP experts here?

 

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