Extract Link in Anchor Tag Using Regular Expressions

[user04]

So I'm having difficulty extracting the value of the href attribute of an anchor tag. For example I want to grab:

(Including the single quotes)

From this:

<a href='http://www.example.com/somedir/somelink.html'>link</a>

I want to store this link and any other link that is in an anchor tag in an array. Th

$returnArray=array();

/* $str is a block of html code containing loads of markup, but at least 10 or more anchor tags */

$regpattern='/<a class=\'1\' href=(.*)\>/';
preg_match_all($regpattern, $str, $returnArray, PREG_SET_ORDER);

I simply can't seem to get the regular expression to work. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Hendricus]

hi,

I find regexes also kinda hard.... but a tutorial on this site make things much more clear; http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/dario19990616.php3