Stripping Out Hyperlinks

[MrSpeed]

I am trying to strip out hypelinks in a string.

Is there a simple function or class to remove hyperlinks but retain the link text or image?

I considered stripping out all html with a regex but I'd like to leave tables, images etc.

I just want to delink hyperlinks.

EDIT:
It looks like I could replace "href" with something like "xhref" to create invalid html, which will work in my case

[mooger35]

you could also just replace "href" with "".

end result <a ='link.php'>Link</a>. Link comes out as plain text.

[coopster]

I like mooger35's idea. Using preg_replace() [php.net] to strip out the href attributes. Untested:

$pattern = "/href=['\"\s]?[^\s>]*[\s>]/i"; 
$string = preg_replace($pattern, '', $string);

Says to find any 'href=' followed by an optional opening single quotation mark, double quotation mark, or whitespace entity character followed by zero or more of anything that isn't a whitespace entity character or the end of the opening <a> element (the greater than sign part of it), followed by either a whitespace entity or the greater than sign, which is the end of the opening <a element.