Regular Expressions for Parsing HTML Tags

[rgraves]

Hi,

I have a large string that contains HTML tags. Here is an example:

$html = "<a name='top'></a><h1><div id='heading'>Page Title</div></h1>other text goes here";

Basically, I need to pull out the contents within the <div id="heading"> </div> tags (i.e. in this case, the words "Page Title"). This is the code I had but it would not return any matches:

preg_match("!(<div id=\"heading\">)(.*)(</div>)!", $html, $matches);

Anyone have a solution?

Rob

[bubblenut]

Well without even checking the logic of the regex I can spot that in your string the id element has single quotes around it while in the regex you're using double quotes ... FAIL! 😉

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Just spotted a couple more.
You've got a space after the opening tag in the regex but there is no space there in the string, you also have a space after the closing div tag.
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