capture text

[tjam]

I am trying to read from a file and then capture the data between 2 unique tags. I have tried using regex but just have not gotten the hang of it yet.

so if I wanted to get the text (white spaces, line breaks everything basically) from

eg. <z> the text goes round and round
TIME Ticks

37 97% </z>

what would be the expression? I tried using this expression but it didnt work.

"'<z[^{>]?>.?</z>'si"}

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thx in advance

[diego25]

You just didn't tell PHP what you wanted to extract. You can do that by adding parenthesis. This works:

<?php

$str ="<z> the text goes round and round\n<u>TIME</u> Ticks\n37 97% </z>";

preg_match("'<z[^>]*?>(.*?)</z>'si", $str, $matches);

print $matches[1];
?>

Diego

[tjam]

cool that worked..... Sub pattern...

thx for you help