Matching a link in regex

I have a chunk of HTML code which I need to 'analyze'. It essentially contains a table of links.

All I need to do is to extract the anchor text from each of the links and put them into an array.

So consider the following (a few rows) I would need to be able to extract the words "link one", "link two" and "link three". There will of course be more rows than this in the final code.

<td><a href="/link-to-a-page">link one</a></td>
<td><a href="/link-to-notherpage">link two</a></td>
<td><a href="/whatever-the-heck">link three</a></td>

HTML:

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

 

<?php

$list = <<<list
<td><a href="/link-to-a-page">link onea</a></td>
<td><a href="/link-to-notherpage">link two</a></td>
<td><a href="/whatever-the-heck">link three</a></td>
list;

preg_match_all('/<td><a href="(?<url>[^"]+)">(?<text>[^<]+)<\/a><\/td>/i', $list, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);

var_dump($matches);

PHP:

 

Thanks for the help, perfect!