I downvoted this because it doesn't actually work on html. It's a good try, but there are several cases it just misses, for example: 
<a href='this>breaks>"'>maybe</a>
<a href=#>test</a>
<a href="/path/to/don't/use/this">omg</a>

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Your code produces: 
URL: this>breaks
Name: "'>maybe

URL: #>
Name:  

URL: "/
Name:

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I'm sure you could manage to fix these specific cases, but I seriously doubt you'll ever actually get to the point where it parses every type of valid html. And even if you do, whats the point? You just wasted X hours to do something that existing modules already do extremely well. This makes a decent learning exercise but please to not suggest "home grown" regexen for such complicated tasks.

In reply to Re^2: extracting link *and* tag content from "a href" by BUU
in thread extracting link *and* tag content from "a href" by hmerrill

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