millercj Posted April 28, 2010 Share Posted April 28, 2010 I'm trying to search a string for a certain syntax (to ultimately get the number of occurrences). I want to ignore spaces but I'm unsure of the best way to do that. Here is my code right now <?PHP $homepage = file_get_contents('http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/ldnews/obituary-browse.aspx?page=1&recentdate=0&entriesperpage=50'); $substring = '<div> <b>'; $substringCount = substr_count($homepage, $substring); echo $substringCount; another way I could accomplish what i'm trying to do is if there's a way to search for text that includes a wild card such as Taglist2Alpha, where the number is the wildcard something similar to $substring = 'Taglist*Alpha'; Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/200050-search-string-ignoring-spaces/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken2k7 Posted April 28, 2010 Share Posted April 28, 2010 Check out preg_match and preg_match_all. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/200050-search-string-ignoring-spaces/#findComment-1049974 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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