Regex: Strip out everything BUT <a href=""> links

I wouldn't normally just dish out an answer on these forums, but that seemed like an interesting regex challenge, so I gave it a bash, and came up with this:

(?!</?\ba\b[^>]*?>)</?[a-z]+?[^>]*?>

I've given it superficial testing, and it seems to do the trick.

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Adam

Does this work:

<cfset variables.m=REMatchNoCase("<a\s.*?<\/a>",variables.html) />
<cfdump var="#variables.m#" />

If you want to avoid writing your on regex, and use one of the HTML tag stripping functions at CFLIB.ORG instead, then just do 2 replaceNoCase() calls first:  One to change "<a href" to something like "$<a href" and another to turn "</a>" into "$/a>.  Then run the function, and then do the inverse replaceNoCase() functions to get the tag syntax back.  You can in fact do the tag stripping of the non-href tags in a regex but it's going to get messy.

-reed