Need regular expression help!

[lodewijk]

Hi!

My head is about to explode, so before it does I'll try my luck here. I need to replace this:

Blah yadah <a href="http://www.foo.com/">foo.com</a> blah blah, yadah yadah <a href="http://www.foo.net/" target="_blank">foo.net</a>.

with this:

Blah yadah foo.com ( http://www.foo.com/ ) blah blah, yadah yadah foo.net ( http://www.foo.net/ ).

Yes, I have read http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/dario19990616.php3 but still can't make it work...

Suggestions, anyone?

[whizkid]

Hi,

try this:

$string = 'Blah yadah <a href="http://www.foo.com/">foo.com</a> blah blah, yadah yadah <a href="http://www.foo.net/" target="_blank">foo.net</a>.';
$string = preg_replace("/<a href=\"' [\"' ]+(.?)>(.?)<\/a>/", "\3 (\1)", $string);

echo $string;

firemouse2001

[lodewijk]

Cheers!

And this seems to work too:

$string = preg_replace("'<a(.)href=\"([^\"])\"([^{>])>(.)</a>'siU",} "\4 ( \2 )", $string);