<?php
$Rec_Data = '<"r"><a href="http://w...content-available-to-author-only...s.com/stories/2002/12/03/politics/main531460.shtml"  foo bar
<"r"><a href="http://w...content-available-to-author-only...s.com/stories/2002/12/03/politics/main531461.shtml"  baz';
preg_match_all('/"r"><a href="(http:.*?)"/i',$Rec_Data, $stuff );
var_dump($stuff);




?>