Re: finding tags and extracting information

If I could match the expression, how do I extract the variable after the expression I have found ? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Adams" <danno@wpi.edu> To: "David Ovens" <DOvens@doweb.co.uk> Cc: "Php-General" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 8:22 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] finding tags and extracting information > Sounds like a job for regular expressions. :-) check out preg_match in > the docs. > - Dan > > On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, David Ovens wrote: > > > I have a string full of html information, and I am trying to find a way of > > scanning the string to find a tag and extract a variable from the tag, but > > cannot find any functions to split the string in lengths of the tag to find > > the variable. > > > > so is there a function that will chop x amount of characters from the left > > and right of a string so that I can check for information. > > > > Hope this is clear > > > > > > Dave > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > -- > 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 >