ereg or preg problem, can you help me?

regort

Houston, we have a problem,

Ok, heres the story, I am trying to build a script that parses a html txt document for blah blah blah blah blah blah . from this i need it to output 3 variable arrays ... or one sequencial variable. The variables being

the class ???? bit
the name ???? bit
all the text between the tags.

There will be more than one <span... tag set in the document.

for some reason the ereg function works fine for one tag but no more than that, after one it starts giving garbled results. i think it looks backwards for the tag. any way, heres what i tried...

PHP:

<head>

<title>Test to search for variables in text file.</title>

</head>

<body>

im gonna scan test.html now, for span tags

<?php>

$filename = "test.html";

$fd = fopen ($filename, "rb");

$contents = fread ($fd, filesize ($filename));

ereg( '(.*)', $contents, $data );

$size=count($data);

if (count($data)==0)

{

echo "no span tags found";

}

elseif (count($data)>0)

{

echo "found some tags ";

}

echo $size;

echo " ";

$row = 0;

while ($row<$size)

{

echo "------------ $row ";

echo $data[$row];

echo " " ;

$row=$row + 1;

}

</body>

this is the sample text file, test.html

PHP:

<head>

Hey wassup

THis is inside a span tah

here is some ignore stuff

but i want you to find this !!!

but i want you to find this also !!!

</body>

And it responds with....
im gonna scan test.html now, for span tags found some tags

10

0 THis is inside a span tah

here is some ignore stuff

but i want you to find this !!!

but i want you to find this also !!!

1 text" name="first"> THis is inside a span tah

here is some ignore stuff

but i want you to find this !!!

<span class="text

2 third

3 but i want you to find this also !!!

4

5

6

7

8

What it should respnd with is.... (hopefully)

im gonna scan test.html now, for span tags found some tags

10 ------------
1 text

2 first

3 THis is inside a span tah

4 text_sort

5 second

6 but i want you to find this !!!

7 text

8 second

9 but i want you to find this also !!!

Any help would be appreciated, even if you think im going the compleatly wrong way abou this the TELL ME If you dont understand the question then TELL ME

Cheers Guys.

Anon

I did some slight modifications to your script, and ended up with some sloppy code that seems to to the job;

// Open file for reading
$fp = fopen("test.html", "r");

// Read entire contents into variable
$contents = fread($fp, filesize("test.html"));

// close file pointer
fclose($fp);

// Remove all newlines (you might want to remove \r as well, I dunno). You may also want to replace it with something you can get back afterwards (i.e. use !!!NEWLINE!!! and replace back later)
$contents = str_replace("\n", "", $contents);

// Replace all the with \n so we only get one .. per line (otherwise it will break the regexp).
$contents = str_replace("", "\n", $contents);

// Now the regexp. I use preg_match_all, http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match-all.php

preg_match_all("/(.*)<\/span>/", $contents, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);

// Now output the data, using array_shift to get rid of $matches[x][0], because the first match is of no interest to us.
foreach ($matches AS $key => $val) {
print "Match $key: ";
array_shift($val);
print implode(", ", $val);
print ' ';
}

On your test html file, this script outputs;

Match 0: text, first, THis is inside a span tah
Match 1: text_sort, second, but i want you to find this !!!
Match 2: text, third, but i want you to find this also !!!

Wich would seem to do the job? Hope it helped :-)