Regex question

I need to match the "Health" in the following line. I have more lines that I need to match they all follow the same pattern but of course the links change.

<li><a class="subtle" href="/dir/?link=list&sid=396545018">Health</a></li>

I need to match the "Health" in the following line. I have more lines that I need to match they all follow the same pattern but of course the links change.

<li><a class="subtle" href="/dir/?link=list&sid=396545018">Health</a></li>


/<a class="[^>]+>([^<]+)/


best regards

There is also a strip_tags function which would work:

<?php
$text='<li><a class="subtle" href="/dir/?link=list&sid=396545018">Health</a></li>';
$word=strip_tags($text);

echo $word;
?>

Thanks for the advice. I have another question related to this.

After using the regex and preg_match_all it matches the strings I need but also some that I don't want.

I am trying to scrape category listings from a site. All the categories are listed between <UL></UL> tags I only want to match the lines inside the <UL> tags. Is this possible?

Thanks for the advice. I have another question related to this.

After using the regex and preg_match_all it matches the strings I need but also some that I don't want.

I am trying to scrape category listings from a site. All the categories are listed between <UL></UL> tags I only want to match the lines inside the <UL> tags. Is this possible?


/<ul>([^<]+)/m


all this can't help you if don't try to understand how regex work.

best regards