Simple PHP help needed

[champrock]

hi

 

i have some raw data from which i ned to extract some useful pieces..

 

data is in this form

 <Date>2008-05-07 22:57:18</Date> 
  <Timestamp>23123123213</Timestamp> 
  <Link>[b] I WANT TO EXTRACT THIS 1[/b] </Link> 
  <Category id="12">Other</Category> 
  <User>EXAMPLE</User> 

<Date>2008-05-07 22:57:18</Date> 
  <Timestamp>23123123213</Timestamp> 
   <Link>[b] I WANT TO EXTRACT THIS 2[/b] </Link> 
  <Category id="12">Other</Category> 
  <User>EXAMPLE</User> 

<Date>2008-05-07 22:57:18</Date> 
  <Timestamp>23123123213</Timestamp> 
  <Link>[b] I WANT TO EXTRACT THIS 3[/b] </Link> 
  <Category id="12">Other</Category> 
  <User>EXAMPLE</User> 

 

 

i want to extract all instances of "I WANT TO EXTRACT THIS" 

 

PLease suggest what regex do  i use? I am trying to do this with preg_match_all? Is this right?

 

[clearstatcache]

try this...

 

$line =  "<Link> I WANT TO EXTRACT THIS 3 </Link>";

if (preg_match("/\<Link\>/", $line)) {

$clean = preg_replace("/(\<Link\>)|(\[b\])|(\[\/b\])|(\<\/Link\>)/", "", $line);

}

print "$line\n";

print "$clean\n";

 

[champrock]

thanks a lot.

 

One more thing, can u please tell the regexp for matching all links ? I want to extract all links (http://) from raw data ?

 

thanks

 

 

[clearstatcache]

try changing preg_match("/\<Link\>/", $line) to preg_match("/http:\/\//", $line)