I am trying to get a string of text in an html page using preg_match. The text starts after the Purpose</p> tag and ends before the next </p> tag. When using preg_match it captures the first </p> tag on the page and not the one after my starting point.
Here is my starting point: preg_match("/Purpose\<\/p\>/i", $fpRead, $matches_new)
Here is my ending point: preg_match("/<(\/p)>/s", $fpRead,$m_new); I have also tried using offset preg_match("/<(\/p)>/s", $fpRead,$m_new, $matches_new[0]);
Does anyone have any suggestions? I also don't know if my syntax is correct for the string </p>...
Thanks
Any help will be appreciated.
Kathy
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You want to match the second expression starting after that Purpose</p>. Use:
preg_match("/<(\/p)>/s", $matches_new[0], $m_new);.. check the documentation on php.net for that function, you don't pass it an offset - it takes an optional flag to return the offset along with the matches. You may have been thinking of:
strpos($haystack, $needle, [$offset])
- which is what I would recommend using for the first part (since you want the first occurrence), then using that with substr() to get the first occurrence of a closing </p> to get the string you want.
[ warning - wholly untested code :) ]
$start = strpos($fpRead, "Purpose</p>"); $end = strpos($fpRead, "</p>", $start); // make what we're doing clearer for the mailing list // also helps in case offsets are a little strange. $length = $end - $start; $what_i_want = $substr($fpRead($start,$length));
cheers,
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