Using preg_match with strrpos

[BSlepkov]

The answer may be so simple that I've totally overlooked it, but I've been struggling to use preg_match with strrpos. Can it be done? If so, my coding would be a heck of a lot more efficient and elegant.

 

Basically, what I want to do is extract the first specific tag (<tr ... > or <li ... >) to the left of a string. The problem is not my regular express (#<(tr|li)[^<]*?>#i), just getting something like ...

    strrpos($some-xhtml-text, preg_match('#<(tr|li)[^<]*?>#i', $some-xhtml-text, $tag));

... to work.

 

Any takers?

 

[.josh]

since when is nesting functions elegant?

 

And anyways, that won't work, because preg_match returns the results in an array specified in the 3rd argument.  When you try to assign preg_match to something, it just assigns 1 for success, 0 for fail.

[Psycho]

Why don't you provide a couple examples of input text and the expected output with an explanation of how the output is to be derived.

[sasa]

<?php
$text = '<tr>';
$big_number = strlen($text);
$res = ($x = min(($b = strpos($text, '<li'))===false ? $big_number:$b,($b = strpos($text, '<tr'))===false ? $big_number:$b))== $big_number ? false : $x;
echo var_dump($res);
?>