[RESOLVED] Regular Expression - Get the information between...

curb

How do I get "78" from the following HTML...

HTML:
<td>
(there are whitespaces here) 78 (there are whitespaces here)
</td>

Regex:
<td> (.+)</td>

jib0

This will do the job:

preg_match('/<td><span class="link">\s*([0-9]+)\s*<\/span><\/td>/', $string, $matches);
echo $matches[1];

sfullman

you're trying to find data in a specific tag, try this:

HTML:
<td>
(there are whitespaces here) 78 (there are whitespaces here)
</td>

$string='<td><span class="link">
(there are whitespaces here) 78 (there are whitespaces here)
</span></td>';

$class='link';
$reg='<span(.|\s)*?class=(\'|")'.$class.'(\'|")[^>]*>((.|\s)*?)<\/span>';
preg_match('/'.$reg.'/i', $string, $match);

//this should get *whatever* is inside a span with class=link
$whatever=trim($match[4]);

//I will leave use of preg_match_all to you as an exercise but it's not much different :)

curb

Thanks you guys. Both sources are very helpful.