how to extract this text ?

how can i extract "123 abc" from this text ?

<p class="test">some text<font style="color:#1E9A9F;">| 123 abc</font></p>

 

Well I don't know of any way you could extract that certain bit of text exactly but you could either user striptags which would return "some text| 123 abc" if you echoed it or if your looking to see if 123 abc exists in that string of text, then it is fairly easy using strpos which will return true or false. You could then use that to do whatever you want.

 

try this one:

<?php
$content = '<p class="test">some text<font style="color:#1E9A9F;">| 123 abc</font></p>';
$find_this = '/<p class="test">some text<font style="color:#1E9A9F;">\| (.*)<\/font><\/p>/';

if (preg_match($find_this, $content, $matches)) {
	echo $matches[1];
}
?>

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you can use preg_match as Gio stated above.
And i think his code will work.

 

gio posted what i know of as the best method to do what you are asking.

 

yes, GEO is right

 

preg_match('~<p class="test">some text<font style="color:#1E9A9F;">\| ([^<]+)</font></p>~', $text, $output);

echo $output[1];

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