picking out phrases using REGEX

Hi all,

I have a really long string called $html which contains a whole web page from which I want to grab some info.

The format is sort of like this:

blahblahblah
<tag>info-1</tag>
<tag>info-2</tag>
<tag>info-3</tag>
tum-te-tum-te-tum
<tag>info-4</tag>
<tag>info-5</tag>
foobarfoobar

Code (markup):

I want 2 arrays - one array that contains the info-n between blahblah and tum-te-tum, and another array that contains the info-n between tum-te-tum and foobar.

Can a master of regex show me how this is done please?!

Thanks!!

 

regex is a pretty specific thing to use, please post a link to the actual page you want data from and point out the actual data you want.

 

The page is at:
http://gfreeman.com/files/regex.zip

In it you see about 1/4 of the way down a line that says "This team has visited the following leagues for international training matches" followed by a list of images of flags. I need an array containing the numbers prefixing all the flag.gifs

Again, about halfway down, there is a line that says "This team has been visited by teams from the following leagues for international training matches" and I need another array containing the numbers prefixing all those flag.gifs

If this helps - then a HUGE thanks!

 

<?
function retrieve_data( $location )
{
	if( !@fopen( $location, 'r' ) )
	{
		printf("Cannot open %s", $location );	
	}
	else
	{
		$buffer = file_get_contents( $location ) ;
		if( preg_match('~This team has visited the following leagues for international training matches:(.*?)This team has been visited by teams from the following leagues for international training matches:~si', $buffer, $leagues ) )
		{
			foreach( split( "\n", $leagues[1] ) as $line )
			{
				if( preg_match('~SRC="/Common/images/([0-9]+)flag.gif"~', $line, $num ) )
				{
					$returns['visited'][ ] = (int) $num[1];	
				}
			}
		}
		if( preg_match( '~This team has been visited by teams from the following leagues for international training matches(.*?)<H2>International Players</H2><BR>~si', $buffer, $visitedby ) )
		{
			foreach( split( "\n", $visitedby[1] ) as $line )
			{
				if( preg_match('~SRC="/Common/images/([0-9]+)flag.gif"~', $line, $num ) )
				{
					$returns['visitedvy'][ ] = (int) $num[1];	
				}	
			}	
		}
	}
	return $returns ;
}
echo "<pre>";
print_r( retrieve_data('test.html') );
?>

PHP:

Your arrays ......

 

1- That's some excellent coding!
2- It doesn't break my current php when I change it slightly and embed it
3- Alas it returns zero lines, but that's probably more to do with my tweaks than anything.
I'll check further when I get home this weekend, but you've probably cracked this for me!

Thanks!!!

 

OK, all working perfectly thanks.

That was a great solution!