Thanks Miguel, I'm going to check out preg_match(). What if there are more than one instance of <a> and </a> in my string, but I know that I want the last two occurances at the end. Can I tell it to check starting at the end of the string and work forwards? Thanks again!
...Brad "Miguel Cruz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Preg is more flexible than ereg. > > if (preg_match('/\<a.*?\>(.+?)\<\/a/', $string1, $matches)) > print "Matched: {$matches[1]}"; > > That'll just get what's between the <a> and </a>. > > http://php.net/preg_match for more info. > > miguel > > On Mon, 13 May 2002, Brad Melendy wrote: > > Thanks Philip. This gives me everything before the "'>" that I'm looking > > for but I believe it is because it occurs more than once. I think I need to > > count the times that "'>" occurs and then try to target the specific > > occurance that I need. But I'm guessing a little. Thanks for your help. > > > > ...Brad > > > > "Philip Hallstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > > > > > $string1 = "<a href='/Schedule_Detail'>Here's the Schedule</a>"; > > > ereg(">(.*)</a>", $string1, $matches); > > > $string2 = $matches[1]; > > > > > > Something close to that anyway... > > > > > > On Mon, 13 May 2002, Brad Melendy wrote: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > I'm pretty stuck here. I wish to assign a variable the value of a > > > > particular substrint of text from a second variable. It's HTML so I've > > got > > > > something like: > > > > > > > > $string1 = "<a href='/Schedule_Detail'>Here's the Schedule</a>" > > > > > > > > I want to create a variable $string2 and assign it the value of whatever > > is > > > > between ">" and "</a>". I just can't figure out how to do that. > > > > > > > > Any kind souls want to give me a hand up? Thanks very much in advance. > > > > > > > > ...Brad > > > > > > > > PS. I do have a PHP book and I did try reading up on regular > > expressions at > > > > php.net first, but I'm just not getting it. :-\ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
