Online PHP editor | output for nTYeI

<?php $string = '\\n\\\\*HYPERLINK \\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0VUsoeT9aM\\"A Youtube Video'; $pattern = '/http[?.:=\w\d\\/]*/'; $namePattern = '/(?:")([\s\w]*)</'; preg_match($pattern, $string, $matches); preg_match($namePattern, $string, $nameMatches); print "original output:\n"; var_dump($matches[0]); var_dump($nameMatches[1]); print "\n"; $newString = 'Blablabla Beginning Text \\n\\\\*HYPERLINK \\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0VUsoeT9aM\\"1.A Youtube Video blablabla Text Middle \\n\\\\*HYPERLINK \\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0VUsoeT9aM\\"2. A Youtube Video blabla Text after'; $newpattern = '/(http[?.:=\w\d\\/]*)\\\\"([\s\w]*)/'; print "does the new pattern work?\n"; preg_match($newpattern, $newString, $allMatches); var_dump($allMatches); print "yep.\n"; $newReplace = '<a href="\\1">\\2</a>'; var_dump( preg_replace($newpattern, $newReplace, $newString) );