Is there a SED equivalent in PHP

[prosper99]

Hi Guys/Gals,

 

Writing a basic website page scraper and have run into a (mental) road block.  I need to scrape a basic webpage and search  the contents for a specific string, once I find that string I need to extract a 10 digit number that sits on the same line where the string was found.. I'm not able to call sed to do this, so is there away with just PHP?

 

Here is an example of a scrape code;

 

I use this to pull the site...

 

$url = 'http://anywebsite.com/list/sus/';

$output = file_get_contents($url);

 

Now, in that output there will be a line like the one below with the string I need to search for "matching text".  Is there a way to just extract the 10 digit number and assign to a variable?

 

href="http://site.website.com/list/tor/1234567890.html">matching text/a> -  <span class="p"> pic</span

 

Thanks for any assistance you can provide..

 

Cheers,

Rob

 

[premiso]

You will want to use preg_match.

 

preg_match('~.com/list/tor/([0-9]{10}).html~', $match);
$num = $match[1];

 

Untested, but should get the 10 digit number, pending any mistakes I may have made.

 

[prosper99]

Thank You for the quick response, works great!