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Asked: 2026-05-16T07:14:05+00:00

I need to retrieve anchor tag innerHTML using RegExp in php. Consider I have

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I need to retrieve anchor tag innerHTML using RegExp in php. Consider I have a syntax like 

   <div class="detailsGray"><span class="detailEmail"><a href="http://example.com"class="fontLink">examples@mail.com</a></span></div>

Try to get it by 

preg_match_all('/class=\"fontLink"\>.*\<\/a\>/', $raw, $matches);

but which is not working. Only I need to retrieve examples@mail.com using RegExp and preg_match_all(). Thanks

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  1. Editorial Team

    Use a parser. Luckily, PHP has one!

    $html = '<div class="detailsGray"><span class="detailEmail"><a href="http://example.com" class="fontLink">examples@mail.com</a></span></div>';
echo retrieve_node_text($html, "//a[@class='fontLink']");

// -----------------------------------------------
function retrieve_node_text($html_fragment, $xpath) {
  $fragment = new DOMDocument();
  $fragment->loadHTML($html_fragment);

  if ($fragment) {
    $xp = new DOMXPath($fragment);
    $result = $xp->query($xpath);

    if ($result->length == 1) {
      return $result->item(0)->textContent;
    }
  }
  return FALSE;
}

    returns:

    examples@mail.com
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