Trying to get multiple lines out of file via preg/ereg

Pests

Hello. Im not very good at expressions, and I'm not sure of the code to do this. I'm trying to get mutliple lines (no limit of how many) out of a file by using a regular expression to match my criteria. The lines I want out look like this:

<TD align="right">Text</TD><TD> More Text</TD><TD align="right" class="highlight">Even More Text</TD>

Im looking for someone to give me, or help me out on the expression to get this out. I would rather it be preg, however. Like I said before, there can be any amount of lines so no limit can be placed. Thanks.

Pests

Going to see if a bump will get more replys to this obvisouly ignored topic.

rpanning

So you want to read a file line by line and see if it matches a pattern? Then would you like it to add that line to an array? I'll try to work something up that does this, shouldn't be too hard.

rpanning

Ok, two options. Both will create the var $lines which will contain an array of matched lines. I like the second better.. Also, I'm not all that great at regex so maybe someone else will have a better one for you but this worked for me.

<?php  

$file = 'C:/path/to/file.htm';
if (($fp = fopen($file, 'r')) !== false) {
	$lines = array();
	while (!feof($fp)) {
		$line = fgets($fp);
		if (preg_match("/(\<TD\s*align\=\"right\"\>(.*?)\<\/TD\>\<TD\>(.*?)\<\/TD\>\<TD\s*align\=\"right\"\s*class\=\"highlight\"\>(.*?)\<\/TD\>)/i", $line)) {
			$lines[] = $line;
		}
	}
} else {
	trigger_error("Could not read the file. [$file]", E_USER_WARNING);
}

//////// OR /////////

$file = 'C:/path/to/file.htm';
if (($contents = file_get_contents($file)) !== false) {
	$lines = array();
	if (preg_match_all("/(\<TD\s*align\=\"right\"\>(.*?)\<\/TD\>\<TD\>(.*?)\<\/TD\>\<TD\s*align\=\"right\"\s*class\=\"highlight\"\>(.*?)\<\/TD\>)/i", $file, $matches)) {
		$lines = $matches[1];
	}
} else {
	trigger_error("Could not read the file. [$file]", E_USER_WARNING);
}

// Here's an example of what you should get from the regex.
// Just run this and you'll see what the output would be.
$file = '<TD align="right">Text</TD><TD> More Text</TD><TD align="right" class="highlight">Even More Text</TD>' . "\r\n" .
        '<TD align="right">Text2</TD><TD> More And More Text</TD><TD align="right" class="highlight">Even More More Text</TD>';
if (preg_match_all("/(\<TD\s*align\=\"right\"\>(.*?)\<\/TD\>\<TD\>(.*?)\<\/TD\>\<TD\s*align\=\"right\"\s*class\=\"highlight\"\>(.*?)\<\/TD\>)/i", $file, $matches)) {
	print_r($matches[1]);
}
?>

BuzzLY

This should work:

$pattern = "§<TD align=\"right\">.*</TD><TD>.*</TD><TD align=\"right\" class=\"highlight\">.*</TD>§i";
echo preg_replace($pattern, "", $subject)

preg_replace will replace EVERY instance of the pattern. The only time you have to loop is if a pattern is inside another pattern:

from the manual:
mixed preg_replace ( mixed pattern, mixed replacement, mixed subject [, int limit])

Searches subject for matches to pattern and replaces them with replacement. If limit is specified, then only limit matches will be replaced; if limit is omitted or is -1, then all matches are replaced.

Pests

Thanks alot.