Strip Entire Page except text in <A> tag

[gamew0rld]

I am trying to remove all the html and text from a page except the text between the <a> and </a> tag. If it looked like this:

<a href="url">click here</a>, all I want is "click here", and no other html or text. There will be hundreds of these on each page, thats why I need to do this. Pretty much all I need is a text file of all the words between the anchor tags, one on each line if possible. I have tried searching, but havent found anything that does what I need. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Joe

[Weedpacket]

Let me get this straight: if I did what you describe to your whole post and pull out everything except that which lies between <a> and </a> tags, I should end up with " and click here"?

preg_match_all('#<a [^>]*>(.*?)</a>#',$text,$matches);
$stripped_text - join('',$matches[1]);

[gamew0rld]

yep 🙂

thanks, it works