stripping html links

[sprocket]

I have passages of text stored as strings, and I would like to strip all <a href> links from them. Many links exist in a single string....

How on earth do I go about it - I know it will use string pointers and pattern matches, but I'm getting muddled...

thx for any help.

[toma42]

Easy answer: use strip_tags() but that will remove all <tags>

[sprocket]

useful knowledge, but for this particular problem, I need to keep all other html code (particularly <table> tags and <br>'s)....

strip_a_tags();
:-D

[Mega]

$string = '<b>didfuhfuh</b> <a href="kjoh">uihiuh</a> <u>ojoijhi</u>';

$string = preg_replace('#<a\\s.*</a>#Ui', '', $string);

echo $string;

edit:

i hate vB, why does it make me escape everything? god its so crap

[sprocket]

mega -
hmm, looks like I'm having to study up on preg's - that looks martian to me!

anyway, after altering the code (replacing </a> with >) and then doing an ereg_replace("</a>", "", $string), I was able to remove all <a> tags, while keeping the link text in tact (your code removed all the link text)

thanks!
anyone have a good pointer to learn preg expressions (perl regexp?)?