How to match only anchor tag which contains text. regex php

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Best methods to parse HTML

Hi, I want to have regex that match only anchor tag which contains text. And in group i want link without domain Eg. I want to match something like that:

<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask/users/login" id="login-link">log in</a>
group1:questions/ask/users/login

but it can't match :

<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask/users/login" id="login-link"><img src="https://stackoverflow.com/images/login.png" alt="log in" title="login" /></a>

I have created something like that:

<a.*?href=["']http:\/\/.*?\/(.*?)["'].*?>(.*?)</a>

And it works quite good but it match all anchor tags.

*(related)* [Best Methods to parse HTML](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3577641/best-methods-to-parse-html/3577662#3577662) — Gordon, Jan 14 '11 at 10:44
Please use the search function. Questions about how to fetch certain content from an HTML document have been asked and answered ad nauseam. — Gordon, Jan 14 '11 at 10:46
@kierzniak *"your example"* is irrelevant. Abstract the problem. It doesnt matter whether you want to fetch `` or `
` or `` from the HTML document. That's just variable input. Any question that shows how to extract content with a parser like DOM will solve your problem. And there is hundreds of those. I know that because [I have answered what feels like half of them](http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3A208809+DOM). — Gordon, Jan 14 '11 at 11:20
I understand, but before asked question i don't know that opportunity. I searched regex instead of DOM parser, and i have regex answers. You have right DOM parser is the best way. You may answer my question and I will mark it as best. — kierzniak, Jan 14 '11 at 12:53
Your best bet is [not to use regex for html parsing](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags) — Martin Jespersen, Jan 14 '11 at 14:53

How to match only anchor tag which contains text. regex php

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