How to replace a link to another element in php?

Question

PHP

It is necessary to change with regular expressions all links in a line, of the form to<a href="...">....</a>

<tr><td><span> <a href="...">....</a> </span></td></tr>

Answer 1

$text = preg_replace('/<a\shref="([\S]+?)">([\S]+?)<\/a>/', '<tr><td><span> <a href="$1">$2</a> </span></td></tr>', $text);