Re: Seek for a value in a html file ...

Bård tommy nilsen wrote: > I want to read the contents from a html file to a pointer, and seek > for > A value, and return it .... > > The text under is an example, and I want to get the 2505 value to be > returned. > Eks. $id = '2505' > > (<a onmouseover="window.status='show text';return true;" > href="javascript:get(2505);"> Try something like this: $content = @file( '<filename>' ); $pattern = "/a onmouseover=\"window.status='show text';return true;\"> href=\"javascript:get(.*);/"; $result = @preg_grep( $pattern, $content ); The $result variable is an array, where the elements are all the matching lines from the $content array, which is your inputfile. You can then filter out the value you want using strpos, strrpos and substr. HTH Erwin