Ideas for a regular expression

Hello.

I need to build a regular expression to do a replacement as following:

I have a HTML page. The regular expression should take a statement like this:

<span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="google-src-text" style="direction: ltr; text-align: left">TEXT 1</span>TEXT 2</span>

from that HTML page and finally get the TEXT 2 only without any other HTML tags in the statement above.

Could somebody please help me with this problem? It took many hours for me finding a solution but nothing worked for me... Or, if any other method to do that... Any help or ideas are highly appreciated.

 

have any other examples?

 

No, this is the only thing I need to replace in the HTML page. The bold statement above is the html piece needed to be replaced as explained by me in the previous post.

 

you might try using two regex replacement methods.. the first to get rid of everything up until the first </span>

like rereplace(htmlstring,"^\.*\\span>","", "one")
than rereplace(htmlstring,"<\\span>","")

sorry i had to do it in coldfusion.. that may not be what you need but maybe get you on the right track

 

I suppose the regular expression is the same even if I use it in PHP with php instructions. I will try it tonight while now I'm on road.

 

I tested but it does not work with PHP... Maybe the regexp is not right?

 

preg_match('~</span>(.+?)</span>~', $html, $m);
echo $m[1];

PHP:

 

This works well but it removes all the content from the HTML file... only showing the TEXT 2...

 

Isn't that what you wanted?

If not, can you clarify what you need?

 

i resolved the problem in another way, using the explode() twice, first by "<span onmouseover=\"_tipon(this)\" onmouseout=\"_tipoff()\"><span class=\"google-src-text\" style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: left\">" and second by </span> to separate every sentence of the html page. Then I used 2

$lines=explode("<span onmouseover=\"_tipon(this)\" onmouseout=\"_tipoff()\"><span class=\"google-src-text\" style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: left\">", $content);
echo "{$lines[0]}";
$num_lines=count($lines);
for ($k=1; $k<$num_lines; $k++) {
$line=explode("</span>", $lines[$k]);
$num_line=count($line);
for ($j=1; $j<$num_line; $j++) {
echo "$line[$j]";
}
}


statements and now I get the new html page without any <span> tags and "TEXT 1" phrases.

Thank you very much for help, anyway!