split() or reg_ex()

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Hello...

I am downloading some public information website regarding my community neighbors from the county assessors office...

If I have:

<span id="_ctl5_lblOwner">MAGUIRE TIM/CHERYL</span>

What is the best way to 'capture' (MAGUIRE TIM/CHERYL)...?

Also - the website HTML is loaded into a variable --> $htmlData

You can see 'sample output' at: http://myPVHOA.com/curl.php

I was thinking about running through line by line looking for a match on '_ctl5_lblOwner' - then using split() on the first span tag - then splitting the second portion on the span tag and leaving myself with the middle portion that I was looking for...

I have about 25 of these little 'sections' that I want to download into a database and thought there might be a better way to capture the data without using several loops...

Thank you for any help you can give me...

[Weedpacket]

If the HTML is well-formed, then you could use one of the XML parsers (if you're going to be collecting other stuff as well...)

Or just [man]preg_match[/man]

#<span id="_ctl5_lblOwner">(.*?)</span>#