Re: Re: One more Regular Expression Question...

Preg is more flexible than ereg. if (preg_match('/\<a.*?\>(.+?)\<\/a/', $string1, $matches)) print "Matched: {$matches[1]}"; That'll just get what's between the <a> and </a>. http://php.net/preg_match for more info. miguel On Mon, 13 May 2002, Brad Melendy wrote: > Thanks Philip. This gives me everything before the "'>" that I'm > looking > for but I believe it is because it occurs more than once. I think I need to > count the times that "'>" occurs and then try to target the specific > occurance that I need. But I'm guessing a little. Thanks for your help. > > ...Brad > > "Philip Hallstrom" <philip@adhesivemedia.com> wrote in message > news:20020513171017.B45180-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com... > > > > $string1 = "<a href='/Schedule_Detail'>Here's the > > Schedule</a>"; > > ereg(">(.*)</a>", $string1, $matches); > > $string2 = $matches[1]; > > > > Something close to that anyway... > > > > On Mon, 13 May 2002, Brad Melendy wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > I'm pretty stuck here. I wish to assign a variable the value of a > > > particular substrint of text from a second variable. It's HTML so I've > got > > > something like: > > > > > > $string1 = "<a href='/Schedule_Detail'>Here's the > > > Schedule</a>" > > > > > > I want to create a variable $string2 and assign it the value of whatever > is > > > between ">" and "</a>". I just can't figure out > > > how to do that. > > > > > > Any kind souls want to give me a hand up? Thanks very much in advance. > > > > > > ...Brad > > > > > > PS. I do have a PHP book and I did try reading up on regular > expressions at > > > php.net first, but I'm just not getting it. :-\ > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > > > >