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Get text value from string containing anchor tag
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Get text value from string containing anchor tag
var myrRegexp = /<a[^>]*>(.*?)<\/a>/i,
subjectString = '<a blah blah>Click Here</a>',
match = myrRegexp.exec(subjectString);
if (match != null && match.length > 1) {
return match[1];
} else {
return = "";
}
// PHP
$str = 'My long <a href="http://example.com/abc" rel="link">string</a> has any
<a href="/local/path" title="with attributes">number</a> of
<a href="#anchor" data-attr="lots">links</a>.';
$dom = new DomDocument();
$dom->loadHTML($str);
$output = array();
foreach ($dom->getElementsByTagName('a') as $item) {
$output[] = array (
'str' => $dom->saveHTML($item),
'href' => $item->getAttribute('href'),
'anchorText' => $item->nodeValue
);
}
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