Help creating patern for preg_match

Hello Guys,

Will you please help me to figure out how to create a pattern for my preg_match.

Here is a example text

<td align=center><font size=3>First text to extract</font></td>
<td align=center><font size=3>second text to text to extract</font></td>
<td align=center><font size=3>second text to text to extract</font></td>

What I want to get are those text between <td align=center><font size=3> and </font></td>

I'll appreciate the helps...

BTW, I tried the following but no success

preg_match('/<td align=center><font size=3>(.*?)</font></td>/i', $longtext, $extracted);

echo $extracted[0];

Code (markup):

 

preg_match('{\<td\salign=center\>\<font\ssize=3\>(.*?)\</font\>\</td\>}', $longtext, $extracted);
var_dump($extracted);

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thanks for the help, but didn't solve the problem

 

preg_match() will stop searching after the first match, if you want to search for all matches, you should use preg_match_all:

$longtext = 
 '<td align=center><font size=3>First text to extract</font></td>
  <td align=center><font size=3>second text to text to extract</font></td>
  <td align=center><font size=3>third text to text to extract</font></td>';

preg_match_all('#<td align=center><font size=3>(.*?)</font></td>#i', $longtext, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);

/*
print_r($matches); should return something like this:
Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => <td align=center><font size=3>First text to extract</font></td>
            [1] => First text to extract
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [0] => <td align=center><font size=3>second text to text to extract</font></td>
            [1] => second text to text to extract
        )

    [2] => Array
        (
            [0] => <td align=center><font size=3>third text to text to extract</font></td>
            [1] => third text to text to extract
        )

)
Where $matches[0][1], $matches[1][1] and $matches[2][1] - text between the tags.
*/

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