Reg Ex HREF help

[vocoder]

Hello, I have grabbed some html from a site, lets say yahoo and am tryin to get all the links in that page....the following code does not work

preg_match_all("<a href=\"(.+)\".>.<\/a>", $test_arr, $out_test);
while(list(,$each_link) = each($out_test[1]))
echo "$each_link<Br>";

I always get the error

Warning: Unknown modifier '.' in /mysite/newsgrabber.php on line 68

what is wrong with my regex ??

$test_arr contains the html page
$out_test is array of links

[eoghain]

I use this:

preg_match_all("|a[[:space:]]href=\"?([^\"' >]+)|i", $html,
                        $hrefs, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);

[vocoder]

problem with that is that it only gets the URL correct? I also need the text inside the <a href> this text </a>

[vocoder]

maybe this is a better explanation of what I'm trying to do

say i have a page that looks like this

<a href="http://myurl1">News Headline1</a>
<small>news source)</small>
<br>
Here is the body of the newsitem1
<br>- <small><i>
Date Posted
</i></small><p>
<a href="http://myurl2">News Headline2</a>
<small>news source)</small>
<br>
Here is the body of the newsitem2
<br>- <small><i>
Date Posted
</i></small><p>
<a href="http://myurl3">News Headline3</a>
<small>news source)</small>
<br>
Here is the body of the newsitem3
<br>- <small><i>
Date Posted
</i></small><p>

now what i want to do is put each "item" into a variable...

link, headline, news source, body, and date