On Thu, November 10, 2005 8:56 am, Normmy2k wrote: > 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> If that string is consistently what you have, then this would also work: $number = (int) trim(strip_tags($text)); This may prove more resilent to HTML changes from the source that is generating all those table tags... -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php