How to capture text in a link tag

Question

I need a , b and c

 <ol class="commalist" id="list">
<li><a class="username" href="http://www.siteurl/member/1/">a</a>, </li>
<li><a class="username" href="http://www.siteurl/member/4/">b</a>, </li>
<li><a class="username" href="http://www.siteurl/member/555/">c</a>, </li>
</ol>

i test

preg_match_all('/<a class="username" href="http:\/\/www.siteurl\/member\/(.*)\/>(.*?)<\/a>/s', $output, $matches);

but dont work. pls help me. tnx

please see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags, it clearly states that only Chuck Norris can parse html with regex — andrew, Jan 05 '15 at 14:48
But, if you need this expression: preg_match_all('#]*>([^\<]+)#i', $output, $matches) — Maxim Dvorkin, Jan 05 '15 at 14:54

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

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Please see this answer about why parsing [X]HTML with Regex is a bad idea. (Plus your first .* is too greedy.)

edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

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answered Jan 05 '15 at 14:48

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