Explode anchor tag

Hello everyone,

I think I know that I need to explode an item but I’m not sure how. I would like to add a name=”” element to an anchor tag but not sure how to add it to my script.

I’m thinking I need to explode this line:
$output .= _wp_link_page( $i );

Could someone point me in the right direction?

Thank for looking,
Sam

This is my script:

function custom_wp_link_pages($args = ''){
$defaults = array(
'before' => '<ol class="wp-paginate">' . "\n",
'after' => "\n" . '</ol>',
/*'text_before' => '<li>',
'text_after' => '</li>',*/
'next_or_number' => 'number',
'nextpagelink' => __('Next page'),
'previouspagelink' => __('Previous page'),
'pagelink' => '%',
'echo' => 1
);

$r = wp_parse_args($args, $defaults);
$r = apply_filters('wp_link_pages_args', $r);
extract($r, EXTR_SKIP);

global $page, $numpages, $multipage, $more, $pagenow;

$output = '';
if ($multipage){
if ('number' == $next_or_number){
$output .= $before;
for ($i = 1; $i < ($numpages + 1); $i = $i + 1){
$j = str_replace('%', $i, $pagelink);
$output .= '<li>';
if ($i != $page || ((!$more) && ($page == 1)))
$output .= _wp_link_page( $i );
else
$output .= '<span class="page current">';
$output .= $text_before;
$output .= $j;
$output .= $text_after;
if ($i != $page || ((!$more) && ($page == 1)))
$output .= '</a></li>' . "\n";
else
$output .= '</span>';}
$output .= $after;}
else{
if ($more){
$output .= $before;
$i = $page - 1;
if ($i && $more){
$output .= $text_before;
$output .= _wp_link_page($i);
$output .= '</a></li>' . "\n";
echo "\n";
$output .= $previouspagelink;
$output .= $text_after;}
$i = $page + 1;
if ($i <= $numpages && $more){
$output .= $text_before;
$output .= _wp_link_page($i);
$output .= '</a></li>' . "\n";
echo "\n";
$output .= $nextpagelink;
$output .= $text_after;}
$output .= $after;}
}
}
if ($echo)
echo $output;
return $output;}