$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