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<?php $re = '/<a ?.*?>([^<]+)<\/a>/m'; $str = '<li><a href="/somelink1">name1</a></li><li><a href="/somelink2">name2</a></li><li><a href="/somelink3">name3</a></li>'; $result = []; preg_match_all($re, $str, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER, 0); // Print the entire match result foreach($matches as $match){ $result[] = $match[1]; } print '<pre>'; print_r($result);