getting wrong string

[baby_g]

here is the html string i have:

$a_stack_of_codes = addslashes("<td nowrap align="right" valign="top" rowspan="1" width="8%" class=""><b>102.50</b><br><td nowrap align="right" valign="top" rowspan="1" width="8%" class="">150.00<br>");

i'm trying to get the bid price and buy price from the above string using the code:

$sbid = addslashes("<td nowrap align="right" valign="top" rowspan="1" width="8%" class=""><b>");
$ebid = "</b><br>";

$sbuy = addslashes("<td nowrap align="right" valign="top" rowspan="1" width="8%" class="">");
$ebuy = "<br>";

if(strstr($a_stack_of_codes, $sbid) && strstr($a_stack_of_codes, $ebid)){
	$start = strpos($a_stack_of_codes, $sbid) + strlen($sbid);
	$end = strpos($a_stack_of_codes, $ebid, $start);
	$str = substr($a_stack_of_codes, $start, $end - $start);
	$bid_price = trim($str);
}

if(strstr($a_stack_of_codes, $sbuy) && strstr($a_stack_of_codes, $ebuy)){
	$start = strpos($a_stack_of_codes, $sbuy) + strlen($sbuy);
	$end = strpos($a_stack_of_codes, $ebuy, $start);
	$str = substr($a_stack_of_codes, $start, $end - $start);
	$buy_price = trim($str);
}

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i get
$bid_price = 102.50;
$buy_price = <b>102.50</b>;

suppose to be
$bid_price = 102.50;
$buy_price = 150.00;

the beginning tags of bid price and buy price are the same, only diffrence is <b> is the bid price

is there a way to check if the $buy_price contains <b> then INCREMENT (some how) to the next $sbuy occurance? if so, how would the code look like?

thanks in advance!!!

[Installer]

If the html is identical every time, this should work:

$stack = stripslashes($a_stack_of_codes);

$pos_1 = strpos($stack, '<b>') + strlen('<b>');
$b_pos = strpos($stack, '</b');
$bid_price = substr($stack, $pos_1, $b_pos - $pos_1);

$pos_2 = strpos($stack, '"">', $b_pos) + strlen('"">');
$br_1_pos = strpos($stack, '<br>');
$br_2_pos = strpos($stack, '<br>', $br_1_pos + 1);
$buy_price = substr($stack, $pos_2, $br_2_pos - $pos_2);

echo '$bid_price = ' . $bid_price . '<br />';
echo '$buy_price = ' . $buy_price . '<br />';