Re: finding tags and extracting information

just put test.php and test.txt in the same directory and run the script. You should see this output: Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => href="experience.htm" [1] => href="quotation.htm" ) [1] => Array ( [0] => experience.htm [1] => quotation.htm ) ) I hope this helps. :-) - Dan On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, David Ovens wrote: > <td><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial Black">| > </font><font > face="Arial Black">Home</font></td> > <td><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial Black">| > </font><a > href="experience.htm"><font face="Arial > Black">Experience</font></a></td> > <td><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial Black">| > </font><a > href="quotation.htm"><font > face="Arial Black">Quotation</font></a></td> > <td align="right" width="1"><img > src="graphic1.gif" > width="8" height="27"></td> > > I am trying to find the tag "<a href=" for example and extract the reference > "experience.htm" and "quotation.htm" > > Thanks for your help on this as I am struggling to get my head round this one. > > > Dave > > > > > ----- 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 8:53 PM > Subject: Re: [PHP] finding tags and extracting information > > > > Send me some of the html and tell me what tag and variable you want to > > extract. > > > > On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, David Ovens wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > -- > > 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 > > > --