Simple Regular Expressions query!

Prine

Simple for you guys hard for me though!!

Ima complete idiot when it comes to regex, i cant for the life of me work out how this works. I've read many books about it and tutorials and i still dont understand it.

So first: im trying to strip text from a string and store the result into an array

Example:

$string = cxvcxvxcaaabcxb<h2>the is the header</h2>jg<h2>the is the header</h2>jhgt<h2>the is the header</h2>he

I want to store the h2 tags and information contained in the tags into an array. Like this

$retrieved = array('<h2>the is the header</h2>','<h2>the is the header</h2>','<h2>the is the header</h2>')

Now i've managed to put to gether some regex which sort of works, it matches the patrn and returns a match

$match = preg_split("/<h[1-9]{1}>.*\s<\\/h[1-9]{1}>/",  $string);

but it doesnt work with preg_splt 🙁

Where am i going wrong?

joe_C_nice

Try this.

preg_match_all('/<h2>.*?<\/h2>/', $string, $matches);

Prine

Cheers mate im ging to try it now, looks far less work then i expected 😛

Prine

worked like a charm. Cheers Joe

Prine

one more question...promise


return str_replace('<p></p>', '', '<p>'
        . preg_replace('#([\r\n]\s*?[\r\n]){2,}#', '</p>$0<p>', $str)
        . '</p>');

what conditions do i need to insert into preg_replace to accept '<ul><li></li></ul>' tags

Thanks!