Try this: $pattern = array( "/<a [^>]/", "/</a>/" ); preg_replace($pattern, "", $text); -- João Cândido de Souza Neto "Karl DeSaulniers" <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu na mensagem news:007BC8E1-B2C8-4DD5-9D18-EB07B0D55C0E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Hi, > Say I have some text. > > $text = 'You can logon here: <a href="http://website.com/shop/ > index.php?username='.$username.'">http://website.com/shop/index.php? > username='.$username.'</a>. This link will take you to your web > browser to login.'.$eol; > > I want to be able to strip the "<a href="http://website.com/shop/ > index.php?username='.$username.'">" and </a>. > Leaving just the http://website.com/shop/index.php?username='. > $username.' text, so it would end up like. > > > $text = 'You can logon here: http://website.com/shop/index.php? > username='.$username.'. This link will take you to your web browser > to login.'.$eol; > > I have tried MANY different ways and have no success. > Can anyone help me? > TIA > > > Karl DeSaulniers > Design Drumm > http://designdrumm.com > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php