php regex to get string inside href tag

Question

I need a regex that will give me the string inside an href tag and inside the quotes also.

For example i need to extract theurltoget.com in the following:

Answer 1

For all href values replacement:

function replaceHref($html, $replaceStr)
{
    $match = array();
    $url   = preg_match_all('/]*href="(.+)"/', $html, $match);

    if(count($match))
    {
        for($j=0; $j