Re: regex help

Jason Morehouse wrote:

Hello, I normally can take a bit of regex fun, but not this time. Simple enough, in theory... I need to match (count) all of the bold tags in a string, including ones with embedded styles (or whatever else can go in there). <b> and <b style="color:red">. My attempts keep matching <br> as well.

okay, you didn't show the regexp you currently have no worries - I happen to have struck the same problem about 9 months ago when I had to screenscrape product info from a static site for importation into a DB, heres a list of regexps which will hopefully give you enough info to do what you want (the fifth regexp is the one you should look at most closely): // strip out top and bottom $str = preg_replace('/<[\/]?html>/is','',$str); // strip out body tags $str = preg_replace('/<[\/]?body[^>]*>/is','',$str); // strip out head $str = preg_replace('/<head>.*<[\/]head>/Uis','',$str); // strip out non product images $str = preg_replace('/<img[^>]*(nieuw|new|euro)\.gif[^>]*\/?>/Uis','',$str); // strip out font, div, span, p, b $str = preg_replace('/<[\/]?(font|div|span|p|b[^r])[^>]*>/Uis','',$str); // table, td, tr attributes $str = preg_replace('/<(table|td|tr)[^>]*>/Uis','<$1>',$str); // strip out the first table and hr? $str = preg_replace('/<table>.*<hr>/Uis','',$str, 1); // strip table, td, tr $str = preg_replace('/<[\/]?(table|td|tr|h5)>/Ui','',$str); // strip out all new lines $str = str_replace("\n", '', $str); // strip out tabs $str = preg_replace('/[\011]+/', ' ', $str); // strip out extra white space $str = preg_replace('/[ ]+/', ' ', $str);

Thanks!