regular expression help

[twopeak]

I really don't understand a thing about regular expressions, and I would like to write a function that uses alot of them...

What I want to do is this:
I have a HTML table loaded into a var. and I would like to transform that into an array.
So there's a page with let's say 5 rows en 10 cols, and every content of every cell should be 1 part of the array.

To complicate things even more, it would be handy if it would work with subarrays, every row makes a part of the 'head'array, and that part is again a subarray that contains the content of every cell...

I don't want someone to write the function for me, it would spoil all the fun.
But just what php function should I use to get the content of every <td>(.*)</td> in a string?
(so if there's <td>a</td><td>b</td><td>c</td> the result should be Array('a', 'b', 'c') )

Thanx

[leatherback]

Hi,

How about this:

Read all html into a variable.
Use explode to split things by <tr></tr>
this bexomes your forst array. Then, for eacvh value in that array, do the same, but explode by </td><td>

Think that this should get you started?

J.

[khaine]

I dont think you can use explode with multiple characters for the delimiter. You may need to do a str_replace first to make the <tr> and <td>'s into something else for example a ~ symbol. then exploding on that should work.

Mark.

[leatherback]

You can use explode with a string-delimiter.
Please check your manual.
Just ran:

$pizza = "piece1 . piece2 . piece3 . piece4 . piece5 piece6";
$pieces = explode (" . ", $pizza);
echo $pieces[1];  

and it works like a charm./

output : piece2

J.
😃

[khaine]

I always assumed that the string delimiter had to be a single character. I have read the manual but never considered using more than 1 char its never been required for me to use more than 1 char.

oh well you live and learn.🆒

Mark.

[leatherback]

😉

[twopeak]

not a bad idea, I'm a little sceptical, but I'll try it first 🙂