Preg_match_all add character before and after

Question

I'm using preg_match_all method to get the urls from inside the anchor tag on a page. It works but when i'm getting them, before adding them to the array i would like to wrap them with '(like this 'url'):

preg_match_all('!<a href="(.*?)">!', $anchors, $urls);

Is there a way to do that? If yes, can you point me towards the right direction and the proper way that this could be done?

Thank you! :D

Naive answer, but is just `array_map(function ($e) { return "'".$e."'"; }, $urls[1]);` an option for you? — ggorlen, Aug 18 '18 at 01:12

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 18 '18 at 09:00

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Instead of using a regex to parse html you could use DOMDocument and getElementsByTagName

$dom = new DOMDocument;
$dom->loadHTMLFile("yourfile.html");
$anchors= $dom->getElementsByTagName("a");
$hrefs = [];

foreach ($anchors as $anchor) {
    if ($anchor->hasAttribute("href")) {
        $hrefs[] = "'{$anchor->getAttribute('href')}'";
    }
}

answered Aug 18 '18 at 09:00

The fourth bird

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Thank you @Thefourthbird! :D it works <3 didn't even knew about DOMDoc :D – emma Aug 18 '18 at 13:25

Preg_match_all add character before and after

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