How to pull out part of string?

jpoltora

Hi,

Could someone tell my how can I pull part of string.
I'm interested in HTML eg:
<html>
<body>
My email: <a href="mailto................." myaddress@domain.com /a>
</body>
<html>

I search each line of html code for 'href' tags once it found I need to pull information from between quotes “”. Can anyone help. With the last part (pull information).

Thanks

swr

I assume you're not using this for some sort of email-list-building web spider for selling email addresses to spammers. If you are, get bent. If you need to extract the email address for non-mass-mailing purposes, read on...

Assuming the HTML is in $string:

preg_match('/a href=\"(.*?)\"/i', $string, $matches);
echo $matches[1];

The (.*?) part captures what is between the quotes. It's a regular expression, which has a kind of crazy syntax, but is very powerful (and is common to quite a few languages, not just PHP).

jpoltora

No, I'm not evil, just try to write spider for academic prepose to search html page and extract all links and build URL’s (if links are not absolute url’s)

But this will help me I think.