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<?php $html = <<< TXT <a href="/test">test</a> <a href="/test/test">test1</a> <a href="/test/article/test">test2</a> <a href="/test/testarticle">test3</a> <a href="/test/test/articletest/" title="test4">test4</a> <a href="article/test/test">test5</a> TXT; echo preg_replace('~(<a(?>.+?)href\s*=\s*(["\'])(?>[^"\'><]*?article)(?>[^>]*?/))(.*?)(\2.*?>[^<]++</a>)~s', '\1\4', $html);
Output for 5.5.0 - 5.5.36, 5.6.0 - 5.6.28, 7.0.0 - 7.0.20, 7.1.0 - 7.1.33, 7.2.5 - 7.2.33, 7.3.0 - 7.3.33, 7.4.0 - 7.4.33, 8.0.0 - 8.0.30, 8.1.0 - 8.1.34, 8.2.0 - 8.2.31, 8.3.0 - 8.3.31, 8.4.1 - 8.4.22, 8.5.0 - 8.5.7
<a href="/test">test</a> <a href="/test/test">test1</a> <a href="/test/article/">test2</a> <a href="/test/testarticle">test3</a> <a href="/test/test/articletest/" title="test4">test4</a> <a href="article/">test5</a>
preferences:
113.87 ms | 1834 KiB | 4 Q