hi, I am using PHP 4, that is what the host has at the moment. How can I extract link from a string when given part of the link to find. Example $find_string = 'http://www.mysite.com/apple'; $string = 'Something and something else < a href="http://www.mysite.com/apple_banana"testlink< /a something else and so forth < a href="http://www.mysite.com/orange"orange< /a In this case I would like to extract only the links that has http:// www.mysite.com/apple in it so it would retrieve http://www.mysite.com/apple_bananan Any help would be greatly appreciated.