Regular Expressions: preg_match_all case problem

Folks, I'm hung up on a problem. I'm trying to extract a series of A tags, complete with the content that it's wrapped around, from a string. The only way to do this, that I can find, is using the preg_match_all function <http://php.net/manual/function.preg-match-all.php>, which permits multiple matches in a single string via the Perl regex functions. I'm using the below, slightly modified from the manual. (I changed it to [Aa] to only get HREF tags: preg_match_all ("/(<([Aa]+)[^>]*>)(.*)(<\/\\2>)/", $html, $matches); The problem is that it chokes on multiple links with the same "A" case. I can have a single link that ends in "/A". And I can have another one that ends in "/a". But if I have two "/a" or "/A" tags, it gives link text of: click here</A> to read the story of a <A HREF=moose.html>moose</A> Instead of: click here moose You see? I'm explaining this poorly -- sorry. RegEx makes my head hurt. :) I would think that the \\2 backreference would be sufficient to recognize the A or a that was picked up in the first part, but I don't know. Could anybody offer any suggestions? I'm a little baffled. Thanks, folks. Best, Waldo Waldo L. Jaquith < waldo@munkandphyber.com > < 804/979.2980 > // Munk & Phyber // 110B Second Street NE // Charlottesville, VA 22902