regex help

[vocoder]

i am using the following to extract link's from a html page stored in a string

preg_match_all("/<a href=\"http:\/\/(.*)<\/a>/", $html_string, $out_href);

however, it's not working. I believe it may be due to the fact that sometimes the links show up in the page across a couple lines, although i don't see why that would prevent it from working...here is an example of some of the html page

<br><p><a href=http://mysite.com?
s=APY6_eRS1QXVzdHJh&ao=19632386>
<b>Searchterm</b> Headline<b>...</b> 
</a><br><font size=-1><font color=green>Source</font>
&nbsp;-&nbsp;Date</font><br><font size=-1> <b>...</b> 

any idea's? i should add that the <a href> changes...it's not always in the same position, sometimes it goes to a newline and other times it does not

[rharter]

preg_match_all("/<a href=\"http:\/\/(.*)<\/a>/", $html_string, $out_href);

try

("/<a href=\"http:\/\/)([^{>]*>)(<\/a>)/}

you will have three matches

matcs[1] <a href ...
match[2] the link with "> on the end, you could break that out if it would help
and
match[3] </a>

[the_Igel]

try
'#<a href="?[url]http://.*[/url]</a>#is'

[vocoder]

thanks..actually my problem was i had a quote in there when the a href wasn't using quotes....doh