Data from HTML file, regex?

[asmith3006]

Hi,

 

I have an HTML file with the code

<input type="hidden" id="slotprod_1" value="WV013">

and I want to extract the value "WV013" from it (without the quotes). This is contained on a page with lots of other HTML.

 

Is a regular expression the way to do this?

 

Thanks

 

Andrew.

[rhodesa]

sure:

 

preg_match('/id="slotprod_1" value="(\d+)"/',$html,$matches);
print $matches[1];

[.josh]

would actually be \w not \d.  Or [a-zA-Z0-9] if you want to be more specific.  \d only matches numbers.

[rhodesa]

would actually be \w not \d.  Or [a-zA-Z0-9] if you want to be more specific.  \d only matches numbers.

 

oops...meant \w...thanks for catching that