Re: EXTRACTING URL FROM A FILE

your regexp won't work...you have to change it! cause a quick look to yahoo's index page: <a href=r/f3>Photos</a> - <a href=r/dr><b>Domain Registration</b></a> - see?! I made this regexp which is partially working: $re = "/<a href=(['\"]*|)(.+?)(\1|[ ])[^>]*>(.+?)<\/a>/is"; "Chinmay Varma" <chinmayvarma@rediffmail.com> wrote in message news:20010917101835.13911.qmail@mailweb21.rediffmail.com... Hi all, The following is a sample code I try to extract URL from a Web Page.Its not finding any match.Any idia why ? Kindly let me know. Thanks to all. chinmay. *********************************************************** $fp = fopen('http://yahoo.com/','r') or die ("Cannot connect"); while($line = fgets($fp,1024)) { if(preg_match_all('/<.*?a.*?href=\s*?[\'"](.+)[\'"].*?>.*?<\/.*?a.*?>/i',$li ne,$matches)) { array_shift($matches); foreach($matches as $match) { $url_list = $match; echo $match; } } } ********************************************************