Re: Finding text in a variable

From: Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 23:28:52 +0000
Subject: Re: Finding text in a variable
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On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 22:46 +0100, Alan Milnes wrote: > I have a piece of code which uses curl to get a web page and puts it > into a variable. I now need to search that variable and find > everything between div class="msgarea" and the next > /div > > >From what I have found elsewhere I think I will need to use a regular > expression but can anyone point me in the right direction as to > exactly how I would go about this? Something like the following: <?php if( preg_match( '/div class="msgarea"(.*)\\/div/Uims', $content, $bits ) ) { print_r( $bits ); } ?> Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'

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