Pattern Matching

Hi Everyone,
What is the best way to extract X Y and Z from the following.

<td width="285" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><font class="normal">X<br>Y<br>Z</font></td>

Thanks

 

<?php
$in = "<td width=\"285\" valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\"><font class=\"normal\">Heres<br>Your<br>Codes</font></td>";
preg_match("/>(.*)<br>(.*)<br>(.*)<\/font><\/td>/",$in,$out);
echo $out[1] . "<br />";
echo $out[2] . "<br />";
echo $out[3] . "<br />";
?>

There ya go mate

 

Thanks, Ill try that now. I thought preg_match would be the way just couldn't think of the syntax. Thanks again.

 

np

say if it works cuz it gets in google within minutes so other ppl can see

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preg_match("<font class='normal'>(.*)<br>",$text,$out);

What about this to get just X.

Warning: preg_match(): Unknown modifier '('

 

hey dood if you just want X from the string you are doing just use the one i sent you and echo X out with

echo $out[1] . "<br />";

^^ this is wahatever x is you dont need to creat a new code

 

also wiht preg and match you have to state where you regular expression starts and where it ends , there are several ways to do this but i like the forwerd slash //


preg_match("<font class='normal'>(.*)<br>",$text,$out); << URS
preg_match("/<font class=\'normal\'>(.*)<br>/is",$text,$out); << MINE

the is after the last / slash means > i < for case insencitive and > s < egnore whitespace
the baclslash tells the script the your are looking for a literla charactor

search for regex cheet sheet for more help with the modifiers

Hope this helps you get started mate