Preg is more flexible than ereg.
if (preg_match('/\<a.*?\>(.+?)\<\/a/', $string1, $matches))
print "Matched: {$matches[1]}";
That'll just get what's between the <a> and </a>.
http://php.net/preg_match for more info.
miguel
On Mon, 13 May 2002, Brad Melendy wrote:
> Thanks Philip. This gives me everything before the "'>" that I'm looking
> for but I believe it is because it occurs more than once. I think I need to
> count the times that "'>" occurs and then try to target the specific
> occurance that I need. But I'm guessing a little. Thanks for your help.
>
> ...Brad
>
> "Philip Hallstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >
> > $string1 = "<a href='/Schedule_Detail'>Here's the Schedule</a>";
> > ereg(">(.*)</a>", $string1, $matches);
> > $string2 = $matches[1];
> >
> > Something close to that anyway...
> >
> > On Mon, 13 May 2002, Brad Melendy wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > > I'm pretty stuck here. I wish to assign a variable the value of a
> > > particular substrint of text from a second variable. It's HTML so I've
> got
> > > something like:
> > >
> > > $string1 = "<a href='/Schedule_Detail'>Here's the Schedule</a>"
> > >
> > > I want to create a variable $string2 and assign it the value of whatever
> is
> > > between ">" and "</a>". I just can't figure out how to do that.
> > >
> > > Any kind souls want to give me a hand up? Thanks very much in advance.
> > >
> > > ...Brad
> > >
> > > PS. I do have a PHP book and I did try reading up on regular
> expressions at
> > > php.net first, but I'm just not getting it. :-\
> > >
> > >
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