Regular Expression to Search+Replace href=“URL”

Question

I\'m useless with regular expressions and haven\'t been able to google myself a clear solution to this one.

I want to search+replace some text ($content) for any url

Answer 1

Here is the gist of what I came up with. Hopefully it helps someone:

$content = get_the_content();
$pattern = "/(?<=href=(\"|'))[^\"']+(?=(\"|'))/";
$newurl = get_permalink();
$content = preg_replace($pattern,$newurl,$content);

echo $content;

Mucho thanko to @WiseGuyEh