Retrieve data that's between tags

[nick1]

Greetings,

To start, lets say you have a script that returns a variable which contains a random string that is never
the same length and never contains the same information. It could look something like this:

$results = <td class="name1">some data1</td><td class="name1">more data</td><td class="name1">12345</td><td class="name1">4/9/2006</td><td class="name1">You get the picture</td>

My question is this:
How do I retrieve only what is between the <td></td> tags?

For example:

<td class="name1">some data1</td>
$a = some data1

I only want the information that is between the <td></td> tags, nothing else.
I would probably want to place each piece of data between the <td></td> tags into an array
so that I could later take each key => value and write value to a database, into it's proper column.

Many thanks in advance,

Nick

[abc123]

Look up the strip_tags funtion. It might not be exactly what you are looking for but it's a start.

Another thing to check out is regular expressions. This would be the way to split it all up into an array.

[bradgrafelman]

I would say regular expressions, though they can go awry very easily. If you want the data from any and ALL td tags within a variable, use [man]preg_match_all/man like so:

preg_match_all('@\<td\>(.*?)\</td\>@si', $results, $matches);

[Salkcin]

 preg_match_all('/(?<=<td>).*?(?=<\/td>)/si', $results, $matches);