Regular Expressions problem

[r4nd0mch4r]

Hi!

I've got a file with a bunch of links that look kind of like this:

<a href=" [url]http://domain.com/anchor.php[/url] ">anchor text</a> 
<a href=" [url]http://domain.com/something.php[/url] ">something else</a>
 <a href=" [url]http://domain.com/different.php[/url] ">different link</a>

Now, I'd like to get the anchor text out of this links with regular expressions, but I just don't seem to understand how to specify the STARTING element, which is "> and the ENDING element, which is </a>.

I've read the tutorials about validating emails, usernames etc., but I just can't get this one... (:

Little help, please?

[mrhappiness]

$pattern = '%">(.*)</a>%siU';