working with strings

[graziano]

Hello

I have this problem

varialble $list contains this

<tr> <td><FONT COLOR="#336699"><B><b>[e-mail]</b></font></b></td>
<td><a href="editquota.html?acct=ftp"><img src="/frontend/test/images/quota.jpg" border=0></a></td><td colspan=2><img src="/frontend/test/images/mainacct.jpg"></td>
</tr>


<tr> <td><FONT COLOR="#336699"><B><b>[e-mail]</b></font></b></td>
<td><a href="editquota.html?acct=ftp"><img src="/frontend/test/images/quota.jpg" border=0></a></td><td colspan=2><img src="/frontend/test/images/mainacct.jpg"></td>
</tr>

<tr> <td><FONT COLOR="#336699"><B><b>[e-mail]</b></font></b></td>
<td><a href="editquota.html?acct=ftp"><img src="/frontend/test/images/quota.jpg" border=0></a></td><td colspan=2><img src="/frontend/test/images/mainacct.jpg"></td>
</tr>

<tr> <td><FONT COLOR="#336699"><B><b>[e-mail]</b></font></b></td>
<td><a href="editquota.html?acct=ftp"><img src="/frontend/test/images/quota.jpg" border=0></a></td><td colspan=2><img src="/frontend/test/images/mainacct.jpg"></td>
</tr>

Before echo $list , I wish to remove from $list all table rows (from <tr> to </tr>) which contain "host2.com" . How to do that ? I tried using preg_match or preg_match_all but I am not able to find a solution .

Any help please ?
Thank you

[pjleonhardt]

I would break list into parts (each row being a part)

then search each part for the occurance of host2

if its there, delete the part, or simply don't use it

if its not, all is good..

say for instance..

$parts = explode("</tr>", $list);


for($i = 0; $i<count($parts)-1; $i++)
{
  if(!(SEARCH FOR host2 in $parts[$i]))
  {
    echo $parts[$i] . '</tr>';
  }
}

rough idea of how I'd do it.

[adcworks]

theoretically it looks like you could explode your html into an array based on a line break (if indeed the contents of $list have line breaks as you've illustrated it).

at that point you can just use a loop to iterate the array doing a test for a substring of host2.com and if it's present do a skip with continue;

[graziano]

pjleonhardt wrote:

I would break list into parts (each row being a part)

then search each part for the occurance of host2

if its there, delete the part, or simply don't use it

if its not, all is good..

say for instance..

$parts = explode("</tr>", $list);


for($i = 0; $i<count($parts)-1; $i++)
{
  if(!(SEARCH FOR host2 in $parts[$i]))
  {
    echo $parts[$i] . '</tr>';
  }
}

rough idea of how I'd do it.

Thank you , I am trying your code but it returns me this error

parse error, unexpected T_FOR

Any help ?

[graziano]

I found solution, thank you to you however for idea!

$parts = explode("</tr>", $list); 
$alfa1= count ($parts);
$alfa1=$alfa1-1;

for($i = 0; $i < $alfa1; $i++) {
if (!ereg ("host2.com", $parts[$i]) )

  { 
    echo $parts[$i] . '</tr>'; 
  } 
}  

[pjleonhardt]

Code was merely meant to convey the idea. I don't run my code to see if it works as I'm usually posting from work with no environment to test on.

Glad you got it working!