Re: Finding one line in a Variable?

If you don't mind NOT using regex or regular expression searching commands, you can try it this way. Assuming that there is a carriage break(e.g. "\r\n" if windows, and I'm assuming the HTML file was written in windows, otherwise, just "\n" for Unix and "\n\r" for Mac, I believe). $eolnString ="\r\n"; $searchString = "the_identifying_string"; $result="NOT FOUND"; $HTMLDumpArray = explode($eolnString, $myHTML); /* if $myHTML = "<HTML>\r\n\t<BODY>\r\n\t</BODY>\r\n</HTML>"; then $HTMLDumpArray is now $HTMLDumpArray[0] = "<HTML>"; $HTMLDumpArray[1] = "\t<BODY>"; $HTMLDumpArray[2] = "\t</BODY>"; $HTMLDumpArray[3] = "</HTML>"; */ foreach ($HTMLDumpArray as $HTMLLine) if (stripos($HTMLLine, $searchString)!==FALSE) //stripos returns the index number of where the $searchString was found OR returns FALSE {

       $result = $HTMLLine;
       break;

} echo "RESULT ".$result; try that and let me know if that works. HTH, -Minuk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Wilson" <nick@stylesheet.org> To: "php-general" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 3:45 AM Subject: [PHP] Finding one line in a Variable?

Hello all, I have to find and put one line of an html file in a variable. I already have the entire html file stored in a variable like this: $myHTML="<html><head>blah blah blah"; - Grabbed using cURL The particular line I want will *always* contain the string "the_identifying_string" So the line itself (the line i want to get into a var) would look like this: <form method="post" action="blah.php" name="the_identifying_string" blah..> How can I get that entire line? many thanks, im sure your all bored of my regex woes heh.. but thanks, it's appreciated.. -- Nick W -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php