On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 13:07 -0500, Chris W wrote: > What I want to do is find all links in an html file. I have the pattern > below. It works as long as there is only one link on a line and as long > as the whole link is one line. It seems there should be a way to get > this to work with more than one link on a single line. The work around > I have done for now is to read the whole file into a buffer and remove > all new lines and then add a new line after every closing a tag. Then > process each line. There has to be a better way. > > Any Ideas? Also note I don't want to find any a tags that don't have an > href.... there probably aren't any but just in case. > > > preg_match_all("/(< *a[^>]*href[^>]+>)(.*)<\/a>/", $Line, $matches, > PREG_PATTERN_ORDER); Your preg isn't going to return the URLs (even if it works), it's going to return the labels of the links. But anyways... <?php $content = implode( '', @file( 'http://www.php.net' ) ); if( preg_match_all( '#(<a[^>]+href[^>]+>)(.*)</a>#Umis', $content, $bits ) ) { print_r( $bits ); } ?> Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php