Find and cut string

[Ola Ekedahl]

Hi,

I'm new to PHP, so please bear with me! =)

Is there a nice little function to find a string between to html-tags?
I.e. let's say I have a string with the following text:
"Hello world, <b>this is a test</b>"
I would like to cut out the text between the <b> and </b> ("this is a test").

Thanks in advance!
Best regards

[Senator Jay Billington Bulworth]

In article <5cb8d6d1.0311230512.b02ff6f@posting.google.com> ,
[email]ola@ekedahl.nu[/email] (Ola Ekedahl) wrote:

> Is there a nice little function to find a string between to html-tags?
> I.e. let's say I have a string with the following text:
> "Hello world, <b>this is a test</b>"
> I would like to cut out the text between the <b> and </b> ("this is a test").

Here are two ways, one with preg_match and one with list and split:

<?
$string = "Hello world, <b>this is a test</b>";
preg_match('/<b>.*<\/b>/i', $string, $result);
echo strip_tags($result[0]);
?>

<?
$string = "Hello world, <b>this is a test</b>";
list($junk, $good) = split('<b>', $string);
list($good, $junk) = split('</b>', $good);
echo $good;
?>

Both methods would get more complicated if the HTML gets more
complicated.

hth

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