a table or a string inside a td?

[shedokan]

I have this regex:

preg_match_all('|<tr([^<>]*)><td>([^&]*)([^<>]*)</td><td([^>]*)>([^&]*)([^<>]*)</td><td([^>]*)>([^&]*)([^<>]*)</td><td([^>]*)>([^&]*)([^<>]*)</td></td></tr>|', $table, $stats, PREG_SET_ORDER);

 

it needs to allow a table inside the first <td>([^&]*)([^<>]*)</td> but I don't know how to do that.

 

please help me.

 

thanks.

[Ken2k7]

What is the regex checking for?

[shedokan]

it is looking for rows like this:

<tr bgcolor=#402020><td><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 width=99%><tr><td>06/25/09 Thu*</td></tr></table></td><td align=right>2 </td><td align=right>1 </td><td align=right>0 </td></td></tr>

 

but they can sometimes be like this, without the table:

<tr bgcolor=#402020><td>06/25/09 Thu*</td><td align=right>2 </td><td align=right>1 </td><td align=right>0 </td></td></tr>

[.josh]

regex is not really that great at dealing with nested tags.  You should look into DOM.

[shedokan]

I tried that once, but it's too cmplicated for me.

if someone could give me an example of how to do this, I can take things from there.