How can detect this string via preg_match?

[web_designer_iq]

Hi everybody

I want to detect the following string by preg_match function:

<a onclick="javascript: if (document.all) window.document.body.scrollTop=0; else window.pageYOffset=0; return false; " href="#" border="0"><img src="http://aljazeera.net/NEWS/KEngine/imgs/top-page.gif" align="left" border="0"></a>

This code isn't working:

$str = '<a onclick="javascript: if (document.all) window.document.body.scrollTop=0; else window.pageYOffset=0; return false; " href="#" border="0"><img src="http://aljazeera.net/NEWS/KEngine/imgs/top-page.gif" align="left" border="0"></a> xxx';
echo preg_replace('/<a(.*)href=\"([^\"]*)\">(.*)<\/a>/iU', '', 	$str);

anyone can help please?

[NogDog]

Looks like you need another ".*" before the ">" in the opening tag.