Get text value from string containing anchor tag

Get text value from string containing anchor tag

var myrRegexp = /<a[^>]*>(.*?)<\/a>/i,
    subjectString = '<a blah blah>Click Here</a>',
    match = myrRegexp.exec(subjectString);
if (match != null && match.length > 1) {
    return match[1];
} else {
    return  = "";
}

// PHP 

$str = 'My long <a href="http://example.com/abc" rel="link">string</a> has any
    <a href="/local/path" title="with attributes">number</a> of
    <a href="#anchor" data-attr="lots">links</a>.';

$dom = new DomDocument();
$dom->loadHTML($str);
$output = array();
foreach ($dom->getElementsByTagName('a') as $item) {
   $output[] = array (
      'str' => $dom->saveHTML($item),
      'href' => $item->getAttribute('href'),
      'anchorText' => $item->nodeValue
   );
}