Match multiple results single line php regex

Question

I would like to match multiple results on a single line string but I am only able to get the last iteration on the result I excpected.

For example I have this string : <ul><li><a href="#">test1</a></li><li><a href="#">test2</a></li><a href="#">test3</a></li></ul>

I would like to get :

test1
test2
test3

As result but I only get "test3"

I used this regex <ul>(<li><a.*>(.*)<\/a><\/li>)*<\/ul> on : https://regex101.com/ but I don't know what I did wrong.

Answer 1

Use a parser instead:

<?php

$html = <<<DATA
<ul>
    <li><a href="#">test1</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">test2</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">test3</a></li>
</ul>
DATA;

$dom = new DOMDocument;
$dom->loadHTML($html, LIBXML_HTML_NOIMPLIED | LIBXML_HTML_NODEFDTD);

$xpath = new DomXPath($dom);

$links = $xpath->query("//li/a");
foreach ($links as $link) {
    echo $link->textContent;
}

?>

This sets up the DOM and uses an xpath expression to get the element(s).

Answer 2

Try like this:

(?<=(<a href="#">))([\s\S]| |w\[0-9]| )+?(?=(<\/a>))
or
(?<=(">))([\s\S]| |w\[0-9]| )+?(?=(<\/a>))
or
(?<=(<a href="#">))(.)+?(?=(<\/a>))

link with example: https://regex101.com/r/MHnxxh/1 or https://regex101.com/r/MHnxxh/2

<?php
$str = '
<ul>
  <li><a href="#">test1</a></li>
  <li><a href="#">test2</a></li>
  <li><a href="#">test3</a></li>
</ul>
';

preg_match_all('/(?<=(#">))([\s\S]| |w\[0-9]| )+?(?=(<\/a>))/', $str,   $matches);

// display array if need
echo "<pre>";
print_r($matches);

// display list
foreach ($matches[0] as $key => $value) {
  echo $value ."\r\n";
}


?>

Answer 3

preg_match_all("\#\"\>[a-z]\w+\<\/\a\>,
    $out, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER)

this the regex pattern....try this ("#\">[a-z]\w+\</\a>)

this will extract only all text strings....

Answer 4

you cane use of preg_replace

     $test = '<ul><li><a href="#">test1</a></li><li><a href="#">test2</a></li><a href="#">test3</a></li></ul>';
        echo preg_replace('/<[^>]*>/', '  ', $test);