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| Richard Grove - 容d Eye Media 2004-09-29, 10:45 am |
| I am having a regex nightmare and can't see the wood for the trees.
I want to extract data from an HTML file. I have been using the file()
command which gets the html alright, I am just falling down with the regular
expression.
eg: <span class="something">Some Text</span><span class="something">Some
More text</span>
I want to extract the information and write it to an array. The above should
produce:
$data[0]="Some Text" , $data[1]="Some More Text"
I am such a noddy when it comes to regex, can anyone help with a code
snippet
Thanks
Regards
Richard Grove
http://www.shopmaker.co.uk - Ecommerce Shop Systems
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| Jamie Isaacs 2004-09-29, 10:45 am |
| Richard Grove - 容d Eye Media wrote:
> I am having a regex nightmare and can't see the wood for the trees.
> I want to extract data from an HTML file. I have been using the file()
> command which gets the html alright, I am just falling down with the regular
> expression.
>
> eg: <span class="something">Some Text</span><span class="something">Some
> More text</span>
> I want to extract the information and write it to an array. The above should
> produce:
> $data[0]="Some Text" , $data[1]="Some More Text"
>
> I am such a noddy when it comes to regex, can anyone help with a code
> snippet
> Thanks
>
> Regards
> Richard Grove
> http://www.shopmaker.co.uk - Ecommerce Shop Systems
>
>
>
I did something like this b4. Here is some of it modified...
<?php
$data = array();
$quote = '<span class="something">Some Text</span><span
class="something">Some More text</span>';
// get <span ...>...</span> within $quote
preg_match_all('(<span.*?>*</span> )',$quote,$all_span, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);
foreach($all_span[0] as $span_match)
{
echo $span_match."\n";
// $span_match = <span ...>...</span>
// get data between the span tags
preg_match_all('(>.*< )',$span_match,$all_data, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);
foreach($all_data[0] as $data_match)
{
echo ' '. substr($data_match,1,strlen($data_match)
-2)."\n";
array_push($data,substr($data_match,1,st
rlen($data_match)-2));
}
}
print_r($data);
?>
now $data should have all the stuff you need.
-JI
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| Richard Grove - 容d Eye Media 2004-09-29, 10:45 am |
| "Jamie Isaacs" <jamie@shsu.edu> wrote in message
news:cjeeai$dgm@library1.airnews.net...
> Richard Grove - 容d Eye Media wrote:
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>
> I did something like this b4. Here is some of it modified...
>
> <?php
> $data = array();
> $quote = '<span class="something">Some Text</span><span
> class="something">Some More text</span>';
>
> // get <span ...>...</span> within $quote
> preg_match_all('(<span.*?>*</span> )',$quote,$all_span,
PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);
> foreach($all_span[0] as $span_match)
> {
> echo $span_match."\n";
> // $span_match = <span ...>...</span>
>
> // get data between the span tags
> preg_match_all('(>.*< )',$span_match,$all_data, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);
> foreach($all_data[0] as $data_match)
> {
> echo ' '. substr($data_match,1,strlen($data_match)
-2)."\n";
> array_push($data,substr($data_match,1,st
rlen($data_match)-2));
> }
> }
>
> print_r($data);
> ?>
>
> now $data should have all the stuff you need.
> -JI
Many thanks, we are on the right road now.
I changed it to this but it doesn't work.
preg_match_all('(<span class="bodybold">*</span> )',$lines[$a],$all_span,
PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);
I would like to get data from between <span class="bodybold">data</span>
Any ideas?
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| Jamie Isaacs 2004-09-29, 8:03 pm |
| to match just the ones with bodybold in the span tag try this:
<?php
$data = array();
$quote = '<span class="bodybold">Some Text</span><span
class="something">Some More text</span>';
// get <span ...>...</span> within $quote
preg_match_all('(<span.*?(bodybold).*?>.*?</span> )',$quote,$all_span,
PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);
foreach($all_span[0] as $span_match)
{
echo $span_match."\n";
// $span_match = <span ...>...</span>
// get data between the span tags
preg_match_all('(>.*< )',$span_match,$all_data, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);
foreach($all_data[0] as $data_match)
{
echo ' '. substr($data_match,1,strlen($data_match)
-2)."\n";
array_push($data,substr($data_match,1,st
rlen($data_match)-2));
}
}
print_r($data);
?>
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| Richard Grove - 容d Eye Media 2004-09-30, 11:24 am |
| "Jamie Isaacs" <jamie@shsu.edu> wrote in message
news:cjer6c$nbc@library1.airnews.net...
> to match just the ones with bodybold in the span tag try this:
>
> <?php
> $data = array();
> $quote = '<span class="bodybold">Some Text</span><span
> class="something">Some More text</span>';
>
> // get <span ...>...</span> within $quote
> preg_match_all('(<span.*?(bodybold).*?>.*?</span> )',$quote,$all_span,
> PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);
> foreach($all_span[0] as $span_match)
> {
> echo $span_match."\n";
> // $span_match = <span ...>...</span>
> // get data between the span tags
> preg_match_all('(>.*< )',$span_match,$all_data, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);
> foreach($all_data[0] as $data_match)
> {
> echo ' '. substr($data_match,1,strlen($data_match)
-2)."\n";
> array_push($data,substr($data_match,1,st
rlen($data_match)-2));
> }
> }
>
> print_r($data);
> ?>
Many thanks Jamie,
I'll give it a spin
Regards
Richard Grove
http://www.shopmaker.co.uk - Ecommerce Shop Systems
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