Need help with regular expressions

Discussion in 'PHP' started by Crayz, Oct 7, 2011.

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    One of these days I intend to tutor myself on this subject -_-

    Anyway, I'm confused on how to use these 100%, what I'm trying to do is use a preg function to find whats between two sets of characters i.e:
    1012|:|<B>Greenbay123<BR>  // here what I need to gather is Greenbay123, though sometimes it will be a little different as so
1015|:|<B>Example 1098 bahdf<p align="right">  // here I would need Steelers 1098 bahdf
    Code (markup):
    The four digit numbers to the left may include characters or more digits, in that spot I would like to have a dynamic variable. The four digits to the left is the ID, the |:| is a separator, and beyond that is the title. I'm trying to get the title for each ID so I can finally convert this ancient text-based database script of mine into sql -_-

    I believe every entry will have an HTML tag right after the entry title, so basically I'm trying to find whats between $var and <

    If anybody could help me I'd greatly appreciate it,
    thanks.
     
    Crayz, Oct 7, 2011 IP
  2. brijesh-soft

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    Hope this works for you:

    $file = '1012|:|<B>Greenbay123<BR>';
$file1 = '1015|:|<B>Example 1098 bahdf<p align="right">';
preg_replace('/(.*?)\|\:\|<B>(.*?)<BR>/ies', '$a = trim(\'$2\');', $file);
preg_replace('/(.*?)\|\:\|<B>(.*?)<p(\s*?)align\=\"right\">/ies', '$b = trim(\'$2\');', $file1);
    Code (markup):
     
    brijesh-soft, Oct 7, 2011 IP