Getting info from in between <td>..</td&g

Anon

i have a part of a table in a string, read from another page, like so:

<tr>
<td>Position</td>
<td>Name</td>
<td>Team</td>
<td>Points</td>
</tr>

And I want to know how to extract the text 'Points' from this, i guess you use some kind of regular expression but I can't figure it out.....

bigc79

if all the text you want to get is from in between the <td> & </td> then try this:

$find = "<td>([[:alnum:]]*)<\/td>";
$replace = "\1";
$NEW_OUTPUT = ereg_replace($find, $replace, $YOUR_TEXT);

That will find all <td>ANY TEXT OR NUMBERS UNTIL</td>

if you are using < and > instead of < and > then you would need to use this expression

$find = "\&lt\;td\&gt\;([[:alnum:]]*)\&lt\;\/td\&gt\;";
$replace = "\1";
$NEW_OUTPUT = ereg_replace($find, $replace, $YOUR_TEXT);

If you have punction and such like also in your between your <td>'s then try adding [[:punct:]] as another character class clause as well as [[:alnum:]], (also not white spaces will need to clauses as well..)

This simply works for single words if you do not change it.

Maybe that will help

As Always

Clive

bigc79

looking at the post.. the &lt and the &gt have changed... Sorry I should have thought about that.. shrugs

just replace < with &lt and > with &gt and it will read correctly

As Always

Clive

bigc79

Ok.. it did it again.. LoL

just put & lt <- NO SPACE and & gt <- NO SPACE

Clive wrote:

looking at the post.. the &lt and the &gt have changed... Sorry I should have thought about that.. shrugs

just replace < with &lt and > with &gt and it will read correctly

As Always

Clive

Anon

Ok, but this doesn't actually give me what i want which is the text between the <td> and </td> tags but only for the 4th column.....

bigc79

it is the same principle to get just the 4th instance... something like...

$find = "<td>[[:alnum:]]<\/td>[[:space:]]<td>[[:alnum:]]<\/td>[[:space:]]<td>[[:alnum:]]<\/td>[[:space:]]<td>([[:alnum:]])<\/td>";
$replace = "\1";
$NEW_OUTPUT = ereg_replace($find, $replace, $YOUR_TEXT);

That would take the text in between the 4th <td> and </td> only.

I'm sure there are other ways of doing it.. but that would work.

As Always

Clive

Dave wrote:

Ok, but this doesn't actually give me what i want which is the text between the <td> and </td> tags but only for the 4th column.....