Ryan S wrote:
Hey all!
To say I suck at regex is an understatement so really need any help I can get on this, I have a page of text with different html tags in them, but each "block" of text has a <p> or a < class="something"> tag... anybody have any regex that will catch each of these paragraphs and put then into an array
example:
array[0]="<p> first block </p>";
array[1]="<p class="blah"> block X</p>";
Thanks!
R
Hi,
Maybe the example is overkill, but I give you a quick setup that can
save you some time finding HTML tags with a certain attribute.
<?php
$html = <<<END_OF_HTML
<b>hello</b>
<b class="blah">hello</b>
<p>hello</p>
<p class="blah">hello</p>
<a>hello</a>
<a href="url">hello</a>
END_OF_HTML;
$tags = array();
$tags[] = 'p';
$tags[] = 'a';
$tags = implode('|', $tags);
$pattern = '/<('.$tags.')[^>]*>/i';
echo $pattern."\n";
preg_match_all($pattern, $html, $matches);
var_dump($matches);
?>
I'm not an expression guru either, but I think it works OK. I had to
find 'link', 'img', 'a' and other tags in HTML and used a more complex
expression for it which worked like a charm.
It's just an example. For you, you have to leave away the 'a' tag in the
$tags array, to get what you want.
Hope it helps!
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