htmlentities

[homer.favenir]

hi,

i want to extract the text inside "<" and ">"

 

e.g.

$str = '<statex refid="ALRdi335-14">, which means Alabama Regulations, Division 335-14 </statex>';

i want to extract "statex refid="ALRdi335-1" in $str

 

i tried

$str = '<statex refid="ALRdi335-14">, which means Alabama Regulations, Division 335-14</statex>';
$strt_tag = strpos($str, "<");
$end_tag = strpos($str, ">");

echo substr($str, $strt_tag, $end_tag);

 

but it returns nothing...

can you help me please...

thanks

 

 

[zq29]

I'd go with Regular Expressions, using something like preg_match_all().

 

<?php
preg_match_all("/<(.*)>/",$str,$m);
echo "<pre>",print_r($m),"</pre>";
?>

 

EDIT: What's with the topic title? This has nothing to do with HTML entities...

[homer.favenir]

i want to extract "statex refid="ALRdi335-1" inside < and >

[BK87]

<?
$str = '<statex refid="ALRdi335-14">, which means Alabama Regulations, Division 335-14</statex>';
preg_match("/<statex refid=\"(.*)\">/",$str,$out);
echo $out[1];
?>

 

this will display the actual "id" in refid tag. since we already know how it will come out...