如何使用preg_replace从PHP字符串中删除链接

Question

I'm using a chat bot script, if a user name was [e-mail] the bot will reply @ <a href= mailto:[e-mail]>[e-mail]</a> with a mailto link. I want the reply to be only [e-mail] without the link, I tried preg_replace and str_replace but I don't really know the exact code to use, I've tried the following but didnt work !

$name = preg_replace('/<a href="([^<]*)">([^<]*)<\/a>/', '', $name);

The whole code I'm using for replacements is this:

$name = str_replace (chr(0xc2).chr(0xa0), "_", $name);
$name = str_replace ("'", "", $name);
$name = str_replace (""", '"', $name);
$name = str_replace ("&", "&", $name);
$name = str_replace ("<", "", $name);
$name = str_replace (">", "", $name);
$name = str_replace ("&", "_", $name);
$name = str_replace ("*", "_", $name);
$name = preg_replace('/[^ \p{L}\p{N} \@ \_ \- \.\#\$\&\!]/u', '', $name);
$name = preg_replace('/<a href="([^<]*)">([^<]*)<\/a>/', '', $name);

Answer 1

Why do you want to replace it? Just use preg_match() with a regex similar to this:

<a href=[^>]+>([^<]*)</a>

so overall your code would look like this

<?php
$regex = '#<a href=[^>]+>([^<]*)</a>#';
$email = '<a href= mailto:[e-mail]>[e-mail]</a>';

preg_match($regex, $email, $matches);
var_dump($matches[1]);
/*
output:
string(13) "[e-mail]"
*/
?>