Re: [RegExp] extracting anchors

Jens Lehmann wrote: > Hello, > > I want to extract the "name"-attribute of all anchors out of an > HTML-source-code which don't have the "href"-attribute. I can use this > code to get the "name"-attribute: > > preg_match_all('/<a([^>]*?)name=[ \'\"](.*?)[ > \'\"](.*?)>/is',$src,$ar); > > The name-attributes are now in $ar[2]. How can I exclude all links > which have the href-attribute? I didn't find an easy way how to say > that a string must _not_ be part of a pattern match. I hope you can > give me some advise. > > Jens This is one lousy solution but hey - it's a solution after all; you can simply remove all <a> tags containing href before doing the preg_match_all()-call, something like this below should do it I think. $src = preg_replace('/<a[^>]*?href=[^>]*?>/is', '', $src); Jome