regexp help?

[frizzo]

hi,

I need some help with regexp, not sure if this is possible -- but I'm trying to find the text that is between two certain strings and pull it out:

....random html code....<!--START_SCROLL-->this is the sting i'm trying to pick out<!--STOP SCROLL-->...more random html code...

So, I want to grab what's in between the start/stop scroll tags. Is that possible with a single regexp?

I can do it using two splits -- the first one splitting on the first tag, then take the second piece and split that on the second tag, and voila, the string. it will work but it's not really slick, and I need to learn regexp... 🙂

Any ideas??

Thanks!
Frizzo

[johnie]

preg_match("/<!--START_SCROLL-->(.[\r\n\s\w\W]*?)<!--STOP SCROLL-->/", $string, $grab);

$string = the text you parse
$grab = the match array

I hope it works.

John