Hello,

I got a problem while extracting links from HTML. Usually I use the following function call to do this:

$count = preg_match_all("/<a[^>]+href\s*=\s*([\"']?)([^\\s\"'>]+)\\1/is", $data, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);

But today I got a page that contains a link like this:

<a href="/sitemap/Women's-Interests.html">

That single quote in "Women's" confuses me - it is allowed by HTML specs, but it does not pass through the regexp. Does anyone have a working method to extract all possible forms of <a href> links from a page? I mean ones that can be enclosed with single or double quotes along with having single quotes inside the link.

Changed regexp to the following one:
/<a[^>]+href\s*=\s*([\"']?)([^\\s\\1>]+)\\1/is

Seems like it works now. At least the desired URL matched.

This captures them

$fd = fopen(<your file>','r');
$document = fread($fd, sizeof(<your file>));

preg_match_all("'<\s*a\s.*?href\s*=\s*	    # find <a href=
                         ([\"\'])?                          # find single or double quote
                         (?(1) (.*?)\\1 | ([^\s\>]+))  # if quote found, match up to next matching
                                                             # quote, otherwise match up to next space
			'isx",$document,$links);


if($links){
  print_r($links);	
}