[SOLVED] help with explode

[Lodius2000]

i am trying to explode a string that has the text i want between b tags, there is other text on the page that i dont want, so i cant use strip tags and then explode to a " "(space) but ALL the text that i want is inbetween those bold tags.

 

but the b tags are not the tags on the page, it is a list on the page that a sample line would read

 

<a name=></a><hr><a name="food"></a><abbr title="pancake"><b>pancake</b></abbr> - flapjack

 

and then the pattern repeats, but <a name="food">, the word food could be a myriad of things, as could the abbr title="", so how do i just grab, what is between the b tags

 

there are hundreds of items in this list, and I did not write it, but i need those words

 

thanks

 

[tibberous]

I'm just use preg_match_all, you'll go nuts trying to do it with explode.

[Lodius2000]

man i suck so bad at regex 

[Lodius2000]

so heres what i have so far, but i doesnt work

 

preg_match_all("@<b>.+?</b>@U", $str, $badwords);

i also tried

preg_match_all("@<b>?</b>@", $str, $badwords);

 

help  ???

[samshel]

<?php
$str = '<a name=></a><hr><a name="food"></a><abbr title="pancake"><b>pancake</b></abbr> - flapjack <a name=></a><hr><a name="food"></a><abbr title="pancake"><b>pancake2</b></abbr> - flapjack';
preg_match_all("@<b>([^<]*)<\/b>@", $str, $arrMatches);
var_dump($arrMatches);
?>

[Lodius2000]

thankyou! 

 

solved