SimonDorfman

That works perfectly. Thanks, @berkux !

Thanks to Aussie Susan! She replied at the above mentioned regex forum with the answer to my problem.

Here’s the code that’s working for me now:
static $anchorPattern = '/<a (.*?)href=[\'\"](?!javascript)(.*?)\/\/([^\'\"]+?)[\'\"](.*?)>(.*?)<\/a>/i';

I’m going to email the plugin author and suggest incorporating this change into the next release.

I posted to a regex specific forum asking for help with this here:
https://regexadvice.com/forums/51575/ShowThread.aspx

I was looking thru the plugin code and I think I know what needs to be changed.
googleanalytics.php
line 439
static $anchorPattern = '/<a (.*?)href=[\'\"](.*?)\/\/([^\'\"]+?)[\'\"](.*?)>(.*?)<\/a>/i';

Change this regex to exclude links that start with “javascript”. Any regex experts wanna take a crack at that?

ifelse, just to be clear, with your code, it prints this:
Simon\’s ToDo List

ifelse, that prints a backslash in front of the apostophy also. weird.