help with preg_match

[razor]

i want to split an total url like it is in format :

<a href='http://red.domain.net/ck.php?id=o2SjLKWuoKZ9Uy9sLzShozIlnJD9ZGNkZwRlK196o25ynJD9ZwtlAy9sL2V9ZmyvZmSxAmEzAz'>test test test etc..</a>

i want to split it and just want to get http://red.domain.net/ck.php?id=o2SjLKWuoKZ9Uy9sLzShozIlnJD9ZGNkZwRlK196 o25ynJD9ZwtlAy9sL2V9ZmyvZmSxAmEzAz
what will be this ?
i tried like:

$data = "<a href='http://red.domain.net/ck.php?id=o2SjLKWuoKZ9Uy9sLzShozIlnJD9ZGNkZwRlK196o25ynJD9ZwtlAy9sL2V9ZmyvZmSxAmEzAz'>test test test etc..</a>";
preg_match('@href="(.+?)"@is',$data,$match);
$get = $match[1]; 

but not successful,
can any one help?

[softwarefreak]

It was in my bookmarks, it's will help to cope up with problem
Coding Horror: The Problem With URLs

[razor]

not clear yet

[softwarefreak]

not clear yet

hmm, try ds

<?php
$data = "<a href='http://red.domain.net/ck.php?id=o2SjLKWuoKZ9Uy9sLzShozIlnJD9ZGNkZwRlK196o25ynJD9ZwtlAy9sL2V9ZmyvZmSxAmEzAz'>test test test etc..</a>"; 
preg_match('@<a href=[\'|"](.+)[\'|"]>@is',$data,$match); 
print_r($match);

[razor]

hmm, try ds

<?php
$data = "<a href='http://red.domain.net/ck.php?id=o2SjLKWuoKZ9Uy9sLzShozIlnJD9ZGNkZwRlK196o25ynJD9ZwtlAy9sL2V9ZmyvZmSxAmEzAz'>test test test etc..</a>"; 
preg_match('@<a href=[\'|"](.+)[\'|"]>@is',$data,$match); 
print_r($match);

that should be $match[1] ...
thanks dude for the help...

[softwarefreak]

that should be $match[1] ...
thanks dude for the help...

print_r() is the best way to work with arrays, welcome anyways

Added after 10 minutes:

BTW, here's the code to match all the anchor links from a page

<?
$data = file_get_contents("http://youtube.com"); 
preg_match_all('@<a href=[\'|"](.+)[\'|"]@Uis',$data,$match);
$links = $match[1]; 
$count = count($links);
for ($i=0; $i < $count; $i++) 
{ 
    echo $links[$i] . "<br />\n";
}

[nimeshka]

explode();

This is very easy,

$data = "<a href='http://red.domain.net/ck.php?id=o2SjLKWuoKZ9Uy9sLzShozIlnJD9ZGNkZwRlK196o25ynJD9ZwtlAy9sL2V9ZmyvZmSxAmEzAz'>test test test etc..</a>"; 

$var = explode("'", $data);


echo $var[1]; 

this will output what you exactly need...........