从字符串中提取Span和href数据

Question

I have some HTML strings with this format

   <span>SpanText</span>
   <a href="link.html" title="link">Link Text</a>

I use this regexp to extract the data

   $regexp = "<span>(.*)<\/span><a\s[^>]*href=(\"??)([^\" >]*?)\\1[^>]*>(.*)<\/a>";
   preg_match_all("/$regexp/siU", $string, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);

This returns nothing.

There must be a problem with the regexp ?

I want to extract the span text and the link text.

Answer 1

You can use the regex :

<span>(.*)<\/span>(?:.|
)*?<a\s[^>]*?href=\"??[^\" >]*?[^>]*>(.*)<\/a>

DEMO

Problem with your code:

Why you used \\1 ? (I didnt understand that)