regex question

[safra]

Hi,

I have to remove links from an html file for a specified URL. For example:

$url = "http://www.phpbuilder.com";

Then it has to remove the compleet A tag used for this link:

<a href="http://www.phpbuilder.com" ......>anchor text</a>

Anyone knows how to do this quickly with regular expressions?

Thanks!

[RyanJones]

Hi :-)

Try this:

$Text = '<a href="http://www.phpbuilder.com" ......>anchor text</a>';
$Text = preg_replace('#<a(.+?)<\/a>#', '', $Text);

Cheers,

Ryan Jones

[safra]

Thanks Ryan,

That looks like it will remove all links from the file. I need to remove the links to a specified domain. Using your code I tried this:

$url = 'http://www.phpbuilder.com';
$Text = '<a href="http://www.phpbuilder.com" ......>anchor text</a>'; 
$Text = preg_replace('#<a(.+?)(.*)'.$url.'(.*)<\/a>#', '', $Text); 

It seems to work ok, or can it result in unexpected behavior?

[RyanJones]

safra wrote:

Thanks Ryan,

That looks like it will remove all links from the file. I need to remove the links to a specified domain. Using your code I tried this:

$url = 'http://www.phpbuilder.com';
$Text = '<a href="http://www.phpbuilder.com" ......>anchor text</a>'; 
$Text = preg_replace('#<a(.+?)(.*)'.$url.'(.*)<\/a>#', '', $Text); 

It seems to work ok, or can it result in unexpected behavior?

Nope, should work :-)

Cheers,

Ryan Jones