title: Regular expression to extract link text from anchor tag
body: <p>i want to get the word Asarum in the below line:</p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;A HREF="http://www.getty.edu/vow/TGNFullDisplay?find=&amp;place=&amp;nation=&amp;english=Y&amp;subjectid=1062783"&gt;Asarum&lt;/A&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>i tried with:</p>
  
  <pre><code>preg_replace('/&lt;a.*?&gt;/i', '', $link);
  preg_replace('/&lt;\/a&gt;/i', '', $link);
  echo $link;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but it doesn't work. nothing was cut out.</p>
  
  <p>could someone help me?</p>