On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 00:23 -0400, John Taylor-Johnston wrote: > See: > http://www.cegepsherbrooke.qc.ca/~languesmodernes/test/test.php > http://www.cegepsherbrooke.qc.ca/~languesmodernes/test/test.phps > > In $mystring, I need to extract everything between "|News Releases|" and > "-30". > > The thing now is $mystring might contain many instances of > "|News Releases|" and "-30". > > How do I deal with this? My code only catches the first instance. > > Thanks for you help so far. > > John > > >> You can use strpos() to find the location of "News Releases" then you > >> can again use strpos() to find the location of "-- 30 --" but you will > >> want to feed strpos() an offset for matching "-- 30 --" (specifically > >> the position found for "News Releases"). This ensures that you only > >> match on "-- 30 --" when it comes after "News Releases". Once you have > >> your beginning and start offsets you can use substr() to create a > >> substring of the interesting excerpt. Once you have the excerpt in hand > >> you can go back to tamouse's recommendation above. > > Cheers, > > Rob. > > What code are you using at the moment? It's not very useful to us to know that your code is half-way there, but then not see the code! -- Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
