having trouble using regexp to find links in a page

Hi everyone, I would appreciate if someone helps me regarding the following problem. I am trying to use the following code to extract links from a page

$input = @file_get_contents($input_file) or die('Could not access file: $input_file');
	$regexp = "<a\s[^>]*href=(\"??)([^\" >]*?)\\1[^>]*>(.*)<\/a>";
	if(preg_match_all("/$regexp/siU", $input, $matches))
	{
	 	# $matches[2] = array of link addresses
	 	# $matches[3] = array of link text - including HTML code
	 }

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everything works fine except the unicode character is not copied properly. For example the following code

<a href="get.php?d=07/10/24/w/p_tkytx">cÖ_g cvZv</a>

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is identified as

<a href="get.php?d=07/10/24/w/p_tkytx">c�_g cvZv</a>

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although I see a ? instead of � here. I am sure this is a unicode character code problem. This is a foreign language page I am working on.
Can some one help me copy the exact code as show on the second code box.

 

maybe you can try the mb_ereg() function, i'm not sure !

 

Try using the UTF-8 modifier, the lowercase u.

 

I figured out the problem as it was the charset causing the problem. I had to use

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">

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instead of

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

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thank you for your help.