Topic: [SOLVED] substring help!!!

[ilkernyc]

Hi,

i want to get the url string out of the href. For example this comes back from the database:

a href="http://something.com" target="_blank" /a

i want to get the substring "http://something.com" How do i do it?

Thank you so much for your helps

Note: Url's are in different lenghts in the database

[MadTechie]

better to use RegEx..
see Regex Section

example code

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<?php
$html = '<a href="http://something.com" target="_blank">Test </a>';
if (preg_match('/href="([^"]*)"/i', $html , $regs))
{
$result = $regs[1];
} else {
$result = "No URL Found";
}
echo $result ;
?>

[ilkernyc]

thanks a lot!