Question

I have a string like this but number of links can be different for each situation:

<a>link 1</a> >> <a>link 2</a> >> <a>link 3</a> >> <a>link 4</a>    

I want to remove last link in that string and convert like this:

<a>link 1</a> >> <a>link 2</a> >> <a>link 3</a> >> link 4    

Is there a simple function for that ? I know i can use several functions like preg_match, preg_match_all, explode etc… With these functions, removing first link tags pretty easy though removing last one is a little bit confusing.

Thanks for help.

Answer 1

As of regexp…

$str = '<p> 
<a>link 1</a> >> <a>link 2</a> >> <a>link 3</a> >> <a>link 4</a>    
</p>';
echo preg_replace('#^(.*)<a[^>]*?>(.*?)</a>(.*?)#im', '$1$2$3', $str);