I want to thank everyone for their help. I finally found the right expression. I needed to start at the end of the string and work backwards. STRRCHR did the trick for me. I was able to use:
$match = substr(strrchr($string1, ">"), 1 ); echo $match; I'm actually not sure what role the last "1" has in the above expression, but it works so I'm not gonna complain. But if anyone wants to explain it to me, that's wonderful. The info for STRRCHR at php.net is a tad light to say the least on this particular function. Thanks again. ....Brad "Brad Melendy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > 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
