regular expression help

Anon

Hi,

Calling all regular expression experts.

I desperately need a regular expression that
will pull all content, html included, between the opening and closing body tags of an html file and assign it to a variable.

I'm very green at regular expressions and normally would take the time to research it myself but the client needs this ASAP.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Anon

$data[0] will hold what you want

$url = "login.php";
$file = file($url);
$lines = implode("", $file);
eregi("<body>(.*)</body>", $lines, $data);
print $data[0];

Anon

$lines = implode("", $file);

Better hope there's not a <pre> section in there!

Anon

What will that do?

Anon

You'll lose all the line breaks--preserving them is the primary reason for using <pre> in the first place.

Anon

So why would that matter? YOu could just do

if(count($file) > 1) {
$lines = implode("", $file);
}
else {
$lines = $file;
}

Anon

Why would it matter? The original question was:

"I desperately need a regular expression that will pull all content, html included, between the opening and closing body tags of an html file and assign it to a variable. "

I think it's only fair to point out that a particular solution will transform that html such that, if you were to echo it to the output, it wouldn't display the same way as the original content; that's all. It may not matter in his scenario, but then again it might...

Anon

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