Re: extracting text - regex

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On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 17:14 +0200, Merlin Morgenstern wrote:
> 
> George Larson wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:13 AM, George Larson <george.g.larson@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> > 
> >> I'm what you might consider rather green, myself.
> >> I certainly wouldn't use this code for production but if you're just
> >> debugging or something then how about something like this:
> >>
> >> <?php
> >>     $handle = @fopen('page.htm', 'r');
> >>     if ($handle) {
> >>         while (!feof($handle)) {
> >>             $eos = trim(fgets($handle, 4096));
> >>             if (strpos($eos,"<div>") !== FALSE) { $echo_output = TRUE; }
> >>             if (strpos($eos,"<\div>") !== FALSE) { $echo_output = FALSE; }
> >>             if ($echo_output == TRUE) { echo $eos; }
> >>         }
> >>         fclose($handle);
> >>     }
> >> ?>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Merlin Morgenstern wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>> I am trying read text out of a text that is inbetween two divs.
> >>>> Somehow this should be possible with regex, I just can't figure out
> >>>> how.
> >>>>
> >>>> Example:
> >>>>
> >>>> <div id="test">
> >>>> bla blub
> >>>> </div>
> >>>>
> >>>> I would like to extract the text "bla blub" out of this example.
> >>>>
> >>> This might do the trick (not tested):
> >>>
> >>> preg_match( "/<div\s+[^>]*>([^<]*)<\/div>", $yourtext, $match );
> >>> print $match[1];
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> /Per
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Per Jessen, Zürich (16.8°C)
> >>>
> >>>
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> >>>
> > Sorry about the top-post.  I forgot. :)
> > 
> 
> 
> Thank you everbody. I figured it out without regex. It's not for 
> production, just testing:
> 	$pos_1 = strpos($contents, $word1);
> 	$pos_2 = strpos($contents, $word2, $pos_1);
> 	$text = strip_tags(substr($contents, $pos_1, $pos_2 - $pos_1));
> 
> That works as well.
> 
> 
> 
Or...

strip_tags() which would work perfectly well for the example excerpt you
gave us!


Ash
www.ashleysheridan.co.uk


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