Regular Expressions

[blue928]

Hi, I'm having some trouble getting my regular expressions to do what I want them to. Here is the scenario.. I have a text file FULL of garbage, and in that garbage there is a constant recurrance of the text <b>name: bob</b>123 vance st.<br>. only the name (and address) changes at every occurance.

I need to not only find the name, but I need to extract that and the address and write them into a new file, each entry having it's own line. ie

1. bob 123 vance st.
2. john 5436 davis dr.

I can do the loop, but I just can't seem to separate the data from the garbage.. any suggestions?

blue

[mickro]

Blue,

This should work:

<?
$file = file("textfile.txt");

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

preg_match_all("/name: (.*?)<br>/i",$data,$newdata);

$fp = fopen("newfile.txt","w");

for ($x=0;$x < count($newdata) + 1;$x++) {
fwrite($fp, "$x:" . $newdata[1][$x] . "\n");

}
fclose($fp);
?>

HTH

Mike