Regular Expression help

I need to strip all but links

[Bonusbana]

Hi

I need a regular expression that strips all data from a string, except the <a> tags and what they contain.

I knwo that this will detect the links:
"/<a([^>]+)>([^<]+)</a>/","<a\\1>\\2</a>"

But how do I strip out everything else through a regExp?

thanks

[timster]

There's two changes that need to happen with the new expression: first, you turn the order around.

Second, you need to add ^ and $ to match the beginning and end of the string respectively, to get any text before and after the first and last links.

Adapting the code you provided, it'd look something like this:

s/(^¦\<\/a>).*?(\<a([^>]+)>([^<]+)¦$)/$1$2/g;

In PHP, just cause I did that...

$string = $string = preg_replace("/^¦(\<\/a>).*?(\<a([^>]+)>([^<]+))¦$/","\\1\\2", $string);