preg_replace question

[jdc44]

Cheers all...
I need to strip out urls in a paragraph of text. The paragraph comes to my code from a db call, so it is dynamic. I can get the first url out but not all of them if there is more than one. I was hoping someone has tackled this and can help me out.

I have $deptDesc coming in from the db.

$deptDesc = preg_replace('/<a href=.*>/U', '',$deptDesc);

$deptDesc = preg_replace('/<\/a>/', '',$deptDesc);

I added the 'U' for non-greedy but it only seems to get the first url if there is more than one.

any thoughts?

Thanks for any help.

[NogDog]

Could you just do the following to get rid of all <a> and </a> tags?

$search = array('/<a(\s+[^>])*>/i', '#</a>#i');
$deptDesc = preg_replace($search, '', $deptDesc);