need some eregi help!

dr4296

Greetings All!

I'm trying to take some HTML and chop out all tables within it, placing those tables within an array.

I wrote this in an attempt to match everything between two table tags:

eregi("(<table)(.*)(</table>)",$code,$tables_found);

However, I need to modify this so that it DOES NOT kick back to me the table tag modifiers and close-tag.

Example of what it's currently doing:

When fed:
$code="<table cellpadding=1><tr><td>Test</td></tr></table>";

It kicks back:
cellpadding=1><tr><td>TEST</td></tr>

I need to get rid of the "cellpadding=1>". How can I adjust my eregi statement so that it starts its pattern match with <table and anything between that and >.... and then ends its match with </table>?

Thanks!

-= Dave =-

bretticus

eregi("(<table[^{>]>)(.)(</table>)",$code,$tables_found);}

untested but try it ;-)

bretticus

On second thought, that probably won't work, i woudl say: ("(<table[^{>]+>)(.*)(</table>)} but that woudl not match just plain <table>...I'll come back tomorrow with my thinking cap on if somebody doesn't have it for you by then ;-)

Bretticus wrote:

eregi("(<table[^{>]>)(.)(</table>)",$code,$tables_found);}

untested but try it ;-)

dr4296

Bretticus,

I think I may have found an alternative that works:

preg_match_all("/<table.?>(.?)<\/table>/si",$code, $tables_found);

This seems to break out individual tables into $tables_found[0], $tables_found[1], $tables_found[2], etc.

Perhaps I was using "eregi" in a manner I wasn't suppossed to? Can you use it to return multiple matches?

Thanks!

-= Dave =-

bretticus

I dunno really, I assumed it was working for you. I've really only tried multi-matches with preg_replace.

Thanks for the tip ;-)

dr4296

Well, it appears I said something incorrectly as to what that code does.

If I look at all items in the array $tables_found[0][x], each item is everything in between AND INCLUDING the <table> tags.

Everything in the array $tables_found[1][x] is all code in between but NOT including the <table> tags.

Thanks!

-= Dave =-