> <?php
> $data = "<tr><td>Item3</td><td>Item3 Has Changed</td></tr>";
>
> eregi("<tr><td>([^>]+)</tr><td>([^>]+)</td></tr>", $data, $regs);
>
> echo $regs[1]; // "Item3"
> echo $regs[2]; // "Item3 Has Changed"
> ?>
Oops sorry, that fourth line should say:
eregi("<tr><td>([^<]+)</tr><td>([^<]+)</td></tr>", $data, $regs);
From: "Simon Garner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From: "Tyler Longren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've been reading a LOT on how to solve my problem today, but haven't
been
> > able to come up with anything yet.
> >
> > Here's my problem:
> > I have an html file that contains many table rows like this:
> >
> > <tr><td>Item1</td><td>Item1 Again</td></tr>
> > <tr><td>Item2</td><td>Item2 Again</td></tr>
> > <tr><td>Item3</tr><td>Item3 Again</td></tr>
> > <tr><td>Item4</tr><td>Item4 Again</td></tr>
> >
> > And so on. I want to search this html for a table row that has 'Item3'
in
> > the first cell. And the second cell should contain 'Item3 Again'. I
know
> > that I can do this with something like this:
> >
> > $file = fopen("http://localhost/html.html", "r");
> > $data = fread($file, 10000);
> > $results = eregi("<tr><td>Item3</tr><td>Item3 Again</td></tr>", $data);
> >
> >
> > However, this won't exactly work for me, because that contents of the
> > second cell will change daily, so tomorrow, the third table row could
look
> > like this:
> >
> > <tr><td>Item3</td><td>Item3 Has Changed</td></tr>
> >
> > I was thinking I could use sscanf() to do this, but couldn't get
anything
> > to work. I've tried everything I can think of.
> >
> > Sorry if the explanation of my problem was hard to understand, I don't
> > exactly understand it myself. Thanks everybody!!!
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tyler Longren
> >
>
>
>
> You just need to use a regular expression with eregi:
>
> <?php
> $data = "<tr><td>Item3</td><td>Item3 Has Changed</td></tr>";
>
> eregi("<tr><td>([^>]+)</tr><td>([^>]+)</td></tr>", $data, $regs);
>
> echo $regs[1]; // "Item3"
> echo $regs[2]; // "Item3 Has Changed"
> ?>
>
> A good guide to regular expressions (which are absolutely indispensible if
> you want to do much work with strings) is here:
>
> http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/rx/rx_toc.html
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Simon Garner
>
>
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