Regular Expresion help

Anon

Im kinda new to both PHP and Regular expresions so please bear with me.

I need to grab everything in between:

This is what I need to grab Including HTML tags

How would I go about doing that?
I just need some kind of an example.

Thanks for the help
Rob

Anon

Where does this: "
This is what I need to grab Including HTML tags
 "
... come from?
Is it a file or a form entity?
Either way.
You can put the whole file or form entity and then use some string jumping to substring what you need to grab.
I.e. find position of 
find position of 
Make sure your pointer is at the end of 
and at the begining of

Good luck.
NB. You will have test and find it yourself.

Anon

Hm. Here's one way to do it, but I only recommend it for relatively small files (or you may need to tweak your PHP setup).

First, load the file containing everything into a string, like so:

$file_array = file("filename");

/ file loads the file as an array, one line to an array element. So now you want to make it a string. Use join /

$file_string = join("\n", $file_array);

/ now find the bit you're looking for. Use parens to match everything in between the bits you're using as delimiters /

eregi("blaaah -->(.*)<!-- /blaaa", $file_string, $matched_stuff);

/ $matched_stuff[1] Should contain what you want. /

HTH,

HTH

Anon

Very short version:
$file=yada.txt;
$fp=fopen($file,"r");
$all_of_it=fread($fp);
$tmp=split("SEPERATOR",$all_of_it);
$result=$tmp[1];

Should work.

Anon

Great it works but one thing.

Grab this of a text or html file

Notice the second

theres a /. So if I do :
<?
$file=(\"yada.txt\");
$fp=fopen($file,\"r\");
$all_of_it=fread($fp,2000);
$tmp=split(\"bllaaaaaa\",$all_of_it);
$result=$tmp[1];
echo (\"$result\");
?>

I see --> at the begining and <!-- / at the end of the file that gets read. How do I avoid this problem?

Anon

You could try my way, mentioned above =) But actually, that won't work quite right as it now reads.

Given what you've got, the best approach is probably to substitute away the "junk" with ereg_replace, i.e.

$result = ereg_replace("<--|<!-- \/", "", $result);

which will replace every occurrence of the sequences <-- and <!-- with (nothing).

HTH,