Re: hyperlink parser - a bit new view :)

Hi Roman, > But on those phpbuilder's page there are also similar questions but answered > scripts don't work, for example: > ... > preg_match_all("|href=\"?([^\"' >]+)|i(+[ >])", $text,$ar); >... > I really don't know :( There's definitely something wrong with the RegEx above. The string commences with |, so therefore the last characters of the string must be |a - where "a" is a letter, in this case "i" meaning case-insensitive. For some reason the |i is not at the end of the string - either you miscopied or they misprinted. However the RegEx doesn't strike me as correct HTML anyway, because there can be spaces between elements, eg between "href" and "=", eg <href = www.homepage.com, secondly if the URL is enclosed in quotation marks either a single or double quotes may be used (' or "). Unfortunately my RegEx skills are self-taught, so who knows how good/useless my advice! Here is my current best attempt (abstracted from my web site links checker routine): $RegEx = "/(" . "href *" . "= *['\"]?)([^'\" >]*)(['\" >])/i"; if ( DEBUG ) echo "<br>RegEx=$RegEx~"; $bValidity = $iFound = preg_match_all( $RegEx, $HTML, $aRegExOut ); An improvement might be for the closing quotes to refer back to (any) opening quotes. I am willing to watch, listen, and learn, if anyone can offer improvements/wisdom. Regards, =dn