reading info from a file

[Anon]

Hi,

I'm tasked at this time with parsing a file for information and am having one problem thus far. I need to read things that are between HTML comment tags and store that information elsewhere. The problem is that once I find the comment tags, I haven't yet figured out how to get and store the information.

Here is an example...

<!-- start title -->
Jack the Ripper
<!-- end title -->

I would need to get and save the "Jack the Ripper" portion of this.

Now it's easy to find the comment tags. I've gotten that far allready, but now I just need to get whatever may be in between them. I am trying to use eregi and am reading a couple of tutorials and stuff, but I'm curious how some of you would/have handle/handled this.

Thanx in advance,
Terrence

[Anon]

I'd use something like preg_match_all.
The will match all occurrences of your expression in the string, and return an array of matches.

Then you can build an expression that will match
a comment, then fetch a string and then match another comment, you should end up with an array of everything that's between comments.

preg_match_all uses PERL compatible regular expressions.
I recommend you have a look at PERL manuals to see how you can use regular expressions to the full.