regex matching links without tag

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With all the disclaimers about using regex to parse html, if you want to use regex for this task, this will work:

$regex="~<a.*?</a>(*SKIP)(*F)|http://\S+~";

See the demo.

This problem is a classic case of the technique explained in this question to “regex-match a pattern, excluding…”

The left side of the alternation | matches complete <a ...tags </a> then deliberately fails, after which the engine skips to the next position in the string. The right side matches the urls, and we know they are the right ones because they were not matched by the expression on the left.

The url regex I put on the right and can be refined, just use whatever suits your needs.

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