Re: extracting text - regex

On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 17:14 +0200, Merlin Morgenstern wrote: > > George Larson wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:13 AM, George Larson <george.g.larson@gmail.com>wrote: > > > >> I'm what you might consider rather green, myself. > >> I certainly wouldn't use this code for production but if you're just > >> debugging or something then how about something like this: > >> > >> <?php > >> $handle = @fopen('page.htm', 'r'); > >> if ($handle) { > >> while (!feof($handle)) { > >> $eos = trim(fgets($handle, 4096)); > >> if (strpos($eos,"<div>") !== FALSE) { $echo_output = TRUE; > >> } > >> if (strpos($eos,"<\div>") !== FALSE) { $echo_output = > >> FALSE; } > >> if ($echo_output == TRUE) { echo $eos; } > >> } > >> fclose($handle); > >> } > >> ?> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote: > >> > >>> Merlin Morgenstern wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hello, > >>>> > >>>> I am trying read text out of a text that is inbetween two divs. > >>>> Somehow this should be possible with regex, I just can't figure out > >>>> how. > >>>> > >>>> Example: > >>>> > >>>> <div id="test"> > >>>> bla blub > >>>> </div> > >>>> > >>>> I would like to extract the text "bla blub" out of this example. > >>>> > >>> This might do the trick (not tested): > >>> > >>> preg_match( "/<div\s+[^>]*>([^<]*)<\/div>", $yourtext, > >>> $match ); > >>> print $match[1]; > >>> > >>> > >>> /Per > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Per Jessen, Zürich (16.8°C) > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > >>> To unsubscribe, visit: > >>> http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >>> > >>> > > Sorry about the top-post. I forgot. :) > > > > > Thank you everbody. I figured it out without regex. It's not for > production, just testing: > $pos_1 = strpos($contents, $word1); > $pos_2 = strpos($contents, $word2, $pos_1); > $text = strip_tags(substr($contents, $pos_1, $pos_2 - $pos_1)); > > That works as well. > > > Or... strip_tags() which would work perfectly well for the example excerpt you gave us! Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk