preg_match and html question

[Sam Waller]

I need a regular expression for preg_match to find all of the strings between
'>' and '<' from html. Eg.

1. <TD><FONT SIZE='2'>XXX</FONT></TD>
2. <TD><FONT SIZE='2'><A HREF=http://www.whatever.co m/...7>ZZZ</A></FONT></TD>
3. <TD ALIGN=CENTER><F ONT SIZE='2'>Y/Y</FONT></TD>

#1 matches should be "", "XXX", and ""
#2 should be "", "", "ZZZ", "", ""
#3 should be "", "Y/Y", ""

Actually I need only the non-empty strings, but I can just ignore the empty ones.

I've tried preg_match("/>(.*)</i", $str, $matches) but it doesn't work like I want.
Does anyone know how to get this to work?

thanks,
Sam

[Floortje]

Re: preg_match and html question

Sam Waller wrote:

I need a regular expression for preg_match to find all of the strings between
'>' and '<' from html. Eg.
>
1. <TD><FONT SIZE='2'>XXX</FONT></TD>
2. <TD><FONT SIZE='2'><A HREF=http://www.whatever.co m/...7>ZZZ</A></FONT></TD>
3. <TD ALIGN=CENTER><F ONT SIZE='2'>Y/Y</FONT></TD>
>
#1 matches should be "", "XXX", and ""
#2 should be "", "", "ZZZ", "", ""
#3 should be "", "Y/Y", ""
>
Actually I need only the non-empty strings, but I can just ignore the empty ones.
>
I've tried preg_match("/>(.*)</i", $str, $matches) but it doesn't work like I want.
Does anyone know how to get this to work?
>
thanks,
Sam

strip_tags() :-)

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[gosha bine]

Re: preg_match and html question

On 10.06.2007 17:23 Sam Waller wrote:

I need a regular expression for preg_match to find all of the strings between
'>' and '<' from html. Eg.
>
1. <TD><FONT SIZE='2'>XXX</FONT></TD>
2. <TD><FONT SIZE='2'><A HREF=http://www.whatever.co m/...7>ZZZ</A></FONT></TD>
3. <TD ALIGN=CENTER><F ONT SIZE='2'>Y/Y</FONT></TD>
>
#1 matches should be "", "XXX", and ""
#2 should be "", "", "ZZZ", "", ""
#3 should be "", "Y/Y", ""
>
Actually I need only the non-empty strings, but I can just ignore the empty ones.
>
I've tried preg_match("/>(.*)</i", $str, $matches) but it doesn't work like I want.
Does anyone know how to get this to work?
>
thanks,
Sam
>

Try using a character class instead of dot: />([^<>]*)</

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[Toby A Inkster]

Re: preg_match and html question

gosha bine wrote:

Try using a character class instead of dot: />([^<>]*)</

Also, using + instead of * might work better for your purposes.

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