preg_match

[smilesmita]

hi there:

i have somethig like this in my buff:
<TD>Average Rate</TD><TD align="right">31.09</TD>

i want to apply preg_match to get the value 31.09 out..how do it do it?>

please help!

-smita

[maxpup979]

preg_match('@<TD>Average Rate</TD><TDalign="right">(.*?)</TD>@',$contents,$match);

Hope that helps

[NogDog]

Assuming the html tag usage is consistent:

if(preg_match('#(?:<TD align="right">)\d+(\.\d+)?(?:</TD>)#i', $string, $matches))
{
   $value = $matches[0];
}
else
{
   $value = NULL; // or whatever you want to do if not found
}