PHP regular expression: match all anchors in a string

generate an array containing all anchors in a string

[Paul Stefan Ort]

How can I do the following?

Copy all instances of:

<a name="my-anchor-name"></a>

into an array containing only the anchor names?

[PHP_Chimp]

<?php
$p = '%<a\s+name="(.*)"\s*>(?:.*)</a>%im';
$s = 'some rubbish
<a name="my-anchor-name1">name</a>more rubbish
more rubbish<a name="my-anchor-name2">name2</a>more rubbish
more rubbish<a name="my-anchor-name3">name3</a>more rubbish
more rubbish<a name="my-anchor-name4">name4</a>more rubbish
more rubbish<a name="my-anchor-name5">name5</a>more rubbish';
$t = preg_match_all($p, $s, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);
?>

Give you -

Array
(
 [0] => Array
  (
   [0] => name
   [1] => my-anchor-name1
  )
 [1] => Array
  (
   [0] => name2
   [1] => my-anchor-name2
  )
 [2] => Array
  (
   [0] => name3
   [1] => my-anchor-name3
  )
 [3] => Array
  (
   [0] => name4
   [1] => my-anchor-name4
  )
 [4] => Array
  (
   [0] => name5
   [1] => my-anchor-name5
  )
)

Is that what you are after?