try explode using <td align="right" class="yfnc_tabledata1"> then on array index[1] explode </td> your answer will then be in index[0] Hope this helps Mike ======================================== Message Received: Nov 10 2005, 03:01 PM From: "Normmy2k" <normmy@xxxxxxxxx> To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Subject: Text between two tags Hello I'm trying to extract some text between two tags: Example I have this string : $text='<td></td> <td align="right" class="yfnc_tabledata3"></td> <td></td> <td align="right" class="yfnc_tabledata2"></td> <td></td> <td align="right" class="yfnc_tabledata1">1234</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td align="right" class="yfnc_tabledata5"></td> '; And I want to retrieve the number 1234 between <td align="right" class="yfnc_tabledata1"> and </td> Any idea?? Normmy. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php