Re: Parsing HTML tags

// Get the webpage into a string $html = join ("", file ("http://www.altavista.com")); // Using eregi eregi("<title>(.*)</title>", $html, $tag_contents); // Using preg_match (faster than eregi) // The i in the end means that it is a case insensitive match preg_match("/<title>(.*)<\/title>/i", $html, $tag_contents); $title = $tag_contents[1]; // Tobias "Chris Empson" <C.J.Empson@chem.hull.ac.uk> wrote in message news:9b6vkl$jpf$1@toye.p.sourceforge.net... > Could anyone tell me how to extract a string from between a pair of HTML > tags? > > Specifically, I would like to extract the page title from between the > <title> and </title> tags. I have read the regular expression docs and I'm > still a bit stuck. > > Can anyone help? > > Thanks in advance, > > Chris Empson > > C.J.Empson@chem.hull.ac.uk > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >