link regular expression parsing

[pdjohe]

I am trying to covert html to text for an email. I would like the link to appear as 'link text' ( url address ). Here's what I have: It doesn't seem to work quite right. It is ok it there is just one link.

Any ideas?

		#Replace all links with text
		$html = 'link 1 is <A href="http://slashdot.org">here</A>
					<BR>link 2 <A href="http://www.uit.no" target=_blank>is here</A>
					<BR><A href="http://www.yahoo.com">link 3 is here</A>'; 

	preg_match_all("/<a.+href=[\"|'](.+?)[\"|'].*?>(.+?)<\/a>/i",$html,$links);
	if (is_array($links)) {
		for ($i=0;$i<count($links[0]);$i++) {
			echo '<br>'.$links[0][$i];
			$html = str_replace($links[0][$i],$links[2][$i].' ( '.$links[1][$i].' )',$html);
			}
		}

[xblue]

you use ungreedy matching in most cases, but not here

<a.+href

also it may make sense to set the s modifier or your regex may fail with examples like

<a href="http://www.domain.com">
click here
</a>