Question

I have a text with “a href” and “[link]” links. I want to preg_split this text and have array where on [i] I can found links

Example:

My text <a href="www.example.com">text</a> this continues [link=http://www.second.com]link[/link]

=>

[0] My text
[1] <a href="www.example.com">text</a>
[2] this continues
[3] [link=http://www.second.com]link[/link]

How should I wrote my regexp?

Answer 1

(.+)(\<a.+\/a>)(.+)(\[link.+\/link])

produces

Match groups:
1.  My text
2.  <a href="www.example.com">text</a>
3.  this continues
4.  [link=http://www.second.com]link[/link]

http://rubular.com/r/8PEUbDX9zr