Re: Meta Tags and Regular Expressions

You do realize there is a PHP function for that http://php.net/get_meta_tags, I think... It will not work properly on oddly-formatted META tags, though... Go fit it, after you figure out the right Regex expressions. You'll want the non-greedy Regex (POSIX or Perl, I forget which is which). -- WARNING richard@zend.com address is an endangered species -- Use ceo@l-i-e.com Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: Kyle Mathews <kyle@thedip.net> Newsgroups: php.general To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 12:29 PM Subject: Meta Tags and Regular Expressions > Hello: > > I'm looking for a good way to pull information from a static HTML file for > dumping into a database. > I need to pull the information from a META tag, and from within two comments > in the HTML file. > I know this can be done with regular expressions, but I'm not really sure > where to start or how to do it. > > <META name="CATEGORY" CONTENT="Test Content"> > > I need to pull the CONTENT information from this META tag. > > <!-- STORY START --> > > Story contents > > <!-- STORY END --> > > Then pull the information from between these two comments. > > Any help, and/or example code would help a lot. > > Thanks, > Kyle > kyle@thedip.net > > >