parsing a buffer

[irishgirl2004]

Hi,
I'm using lib curl , and i have an output buffer ( $ch )

this buffer contains a table, which has a variable amount of items, is there any built in function in php to search buffers for strings, i.e. so i can just pull this table. Or does anybody know of any generic parsing routines?

many thanks

[bradgrafelman]

Well, you could use some regular expression to grab anything between <table></table> tags... though if there's multiple tables, you'd have to know some defining element (e.g. an id="" on the table tag you're after).

[irishgirl2004]

Hi,
My regular expresions are not very good, i just want to pull out every table in the string into an array, there will be a variable amount of these tables, does anybody have an example?

cheers