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

This will handle the case where there are no quotes around the URL.

/]*href="?([^">]+)"?>/

But seriously, do not parse HTML with regex. Use DOM or a proper parsing library.