I need to extract URLs from a piece of HTML code, but how?

Let's say I have some code like this

Code:
<a target="_blank" href="http://link.com">
abc</a> </p>

But I of course have a lot more. How can I automatically extract the URLs?
I know the task is simply to return all values between href=" and "> but no idea what code I could use for it.

 

You could use regular expressions. You will beyond a shadow of a doubt come across some HTML that won't fit the RegEx though .

For fast development (but might break easily): Regular Expressions
For bulletproof code (but is harder to learn and longer to code): XPath or some selector library like phpQuery


Edit: sorry, I just came out of the PHP forum and assumed you're talking about PHP.

 

Thanks for ur reply
Well I just need what i wrote above cus it's just one site i need to be able to do it from.

it's a site that checks backlinks and i need the URLs by themselves like

www.link1.com
www.link2.com
www.link3.com

I don't think it's a hard task as I basically just need somewhere where I can insert the code, and that it then finds all values that are inbetween href=" and "> and that it then echoes them. But i'm no programmor so it's not that easy

 

Ive made a tool that is able to grab all regex matches
http://rapidshare.com/files/432240761/GetMeAllMatches.exe

set as matcher
href="([^"]*?)"
and group 1 (so it outputs the match in the brakes (URL)),
paste the source code in the input box and hit get matches

here is a short video
http://rapidshare.com/files/432242006/getmeallmatches.wmv

 

Your tool doesn't work :/ but some other guys made a script that works perfectly fine so i dont need it anymore

 

You can make a scraper in a multitude of languages, you could use Java + Regex(Easiest way to search IMO) to do it easily.