Re: What's the regex for this...?

From:	Paul Novitski	Date:	Tue, 04 Jul 2006 23:59:52 +0000
Subject:	Re: What's the regex for this...?
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At 04:50 PM 7/4/2006, Brian Dunning wrote:

I have the source of a web page stored in $here and I want to set $this to whatever appears between '<span class="myclass">' and '</ span>'. Example: $here contains (amid tons of other stuff): <span class="myclass">This is a statement.</span>

If you can depend on the markup you provided, you can use:

        $this = preg_replace("/<[^>]+>/", "", $here);

to replace any <tag> with nothing. The regular expression /<[^>]+>/ parses to <{one or more characters that aren't >}> Paul