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Answer 1

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Hi,

What about something like this :

$str = <<<HTML
<div class="gallery">text to extract here</div>
<div class="gallery">text to extract from here as well</div>
HTML;

$matches = array();
preg_match_all('#<div[^>]*>(.*?)</div>#', $str, $matches);

var_dump($matches[1]);

Note the '?' in the regex, so it is "not greedy".

Which will get you :

array
  0 => string 'text to extract here' (length=20)
  1 => string 'text to extract from here as well' (length=33)

This should work fine... If you don't have imbricated divs ; if you do... Well... actually : are you really sure you want to use rational expressions to parse HTML, which is quite not that rational itself ?

Pascal MARTIN 2009-08-29 18:41:54

@downvoter : please, could you explain what is wrong in an answer, when you downvote it ? It would benefit to everyone : the guy who answered (me), so he doesn't make the same mistake again ; and people reading the answer, so they know there is something wrong in it, and what... (if it's because I used regex : well, the OP stated he knows there are better ways, but he said he wants a regex... )

Pascal MARTIN 2009-08-29 18:49:09

+1 for the "not greedy" trick and mentioning that it won't work correctly for nested <div>s. I would strongly recommend going with meder's solution though.

Filip Navara 2009-08-29 18:49:31

@Filip : I would recommend using DOM and loadHTML too, actually -- I did several times, in other answers (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1274020/extract-form-fields-using-regex/1274074#1274074 for instance) : HTML is not something that can be properly parsed with regexes... not rational enough, I suppose ^^

Pascal MARTIN 2009-08-29 18:51:19

Your great! it was that ? I needed! just inserted into my already existing expression and it worked like a charm. You're probably right that I shouldn't use regexps but I'll have controll of the input and i just need it to perform this. so this will have to do! Thanks again.

Fifth-Edition 2009-08-29 18:54:58

You're welcome :-) If you have control over the input, and know you will always get the same kind of data, well, in this case, I suppose regexes are ok ^^

Pascal MARTIN 2009-08-29 18:56:07

Answer 2

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meder 2009-08-29 18:46:18

+1 for showing the correct way to do this, even though it doesn't use a regular expression.

Filip Navara 2009-08-29 18:48:04

Ye. Thanks for showing this option to - although I want to solve this using regular expressions. I might take a look at this in a bit, as i suspect that this is the way to go. But, ill accept pascal martins sollution!

Fifth-Edition 2009-08-29 19:01:53

Answer 3

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A possible answer to this problem can be found at http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/ That class help me to solve similar problem quickly

dhee 2010-03-31 07:16:47

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