capturing data in between string

[chrisleon]

I am grabbing some xml data in a variable. I am trying to grab some data in between tags. I thought I would do something like this:

$newaddress = htmlspecialchars(file_get_contents($address));

echo $newaddress;

$pattern = "<coordinates>(.*)</coordinates>";
if (eregi($pattern, $newaddress, $title)){
break;
}

if ($title) {
$title = strip_tags($title[0]);
print $title;
}

I do not get any other output other than the original echo of newaddress. What am I doing wrong. I feel pretty stupid that I cannot figure this out.

[NogDog]

Don't apply the htmlspecialchars() to the file_get_contents(), as it is changing all the "<" and ">" to "&lt;" and "&gt;" sequences. (Or else modify your regex to account for that change.)

[chrisleon]

I changed that, and now I get an error.

Fatal error: Cannot break/continue 1 level in /www/nicapache/htdocs/php/index/index.php on line 16

Do I have the correct sytax in order to retrieve the data between the tags?

[NogDog]

I'd probably use preg_match():

$newaddress = file_get_contents($address);
if(preg_match('/<coordinates>([^<]*)</coordinates>/', $newaddress, $title))
{
   echo strip_tags($title[1]);
}
else
{
   // whatever you want to do if no match was found
}

[chrisleon]

worked perfect

thanx

[bradgrafelman]

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