Re: [RegExp] extracting anchors

Jome wrote:

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.

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);

This is of course a working solution, but I'm still interested if it can be done directly with just one regular expression. Thanks anyways. Jens