HTML parsing problem

devlyn76

Hi folks

I'm primarily a Perl and C coder, just getting into PHP. I have an issue dealing with extracting content between matched tags, i.e. given the example

<html>
<center>
something
</center>
something else
</html>

I want to extract <center>
something
</center> and drop the rest. I figure there's got to be something built-in, or a regex I can come up with, which can do this.

The <center> tag, btw, will change depending on the document I am parsing...

thanks,
-ben

devinemke

$html = '
<html>
<center>
<p>something</p>
</center>
<p>something else</p>
</html>
';

preg_match_all('/\<center>([^\[]*)\<\/center>/', $html, $matches, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);
echo $matches[0][0];