regular expression help

I'm new to regular expressions and I would appreciate some help.

if the original code is something like:

 
here is html code
 
<font face="times new roman" size="+2"><B>Some Name Here</b></font>
 
more html code
 

HTML:

and I want to extract just: Some Name Here

I started with this code but it doesn't work:

    preg_match("<%font%[^>]*>(.*?)</%font%>", $pagecontent,$matches);

PHP:

 

function GSB($oString, $oStart, $oEnd, $start = 1) {
$strings = explode($oStart, $oString);
$tempstr = $strings[$start];

$strings = explode($oEnd, $tempstr);
return $strings[0];
}

PHP:

GetStringBetween function, written by me.

For your example, you would want to use this:

<?php
function GSB($oString, $oStart, $oEnd, $start = 1) {
$strings = explode($oStart, $oString);
$tempstr = $strings[$start];

$strings = explode($oEnd, $tempstr);
return $strings[0];
}

$html = "<font face=\"times new roman\" size=\"+2\"><B>Some Name Here</b></font>";

$strName = GSB($html, 'size="+2"><B>', '</b></font>');

echo $strName;
?>

PHP:

This would output 'Some Name Here'

 

preg_match("/<font face="times new roman" size="\+2"><B>(.*)<\/b><\/font>/U", $pagecontent,$matches);

Code (markup):

Should work.

Peace,

 

azizny: Perfect thanks!!