Regex - Regular Expression for search

[abhi_madhani]

Hi,

 

I am not that good with understanding REGEX/REGEXP functions but,

Could someone please let me know as how can I search through html code for a particular tag having a definite start and definite end.

 

E.g. HTML Code below, it has

 

definite Start of

<div id="ST

 

and definite End of

house='Anything'></div></div></div>

 

<div id="ST12345678_st" class="r_right_col">
<div class=""></div>
<div id=""><span class=""></span></div>
<div class=""></div>
<div class=""><span class=""></span></div>
<div class=""></div>
<div class="">
	<div style="" id=""
		fname=Abhishek
		lname='madhani'
		division=8C
		house='Anything'>
	</div>
</div>
</div>

 

So the HTML file which I have, has the this particular tag being repeated atleast more than 50 times in whole code.

 

And I am planning to extract each of them seperately. So if someone could help me with REGEX to search for this particular tags in whole file, would be really helpful.

 

Regards,

Abhishek Madhani

 

[sasa]

preg_match_all('/<div id="ST.*?house=\'Anything\'>\s*<\/div>\s*<\/div>\s*<\/div>/is', $html, $match);
print_r($match);

[abhi_madhani]

Hi,

 

I checked this it doesn't seem to work, there need be included a character after "ST.* to allow to go to next line, I think.

 

\<div id="ST.*?house=\'Anything\'>\s*<\/div>\s*<\/div>\s*<\/div>/is

 

Also this is very good website, where one could check the outcome of the preg_match with regex.

 

http://regex.larsolavtorvik.com/

 

Could someone please help me with this?

 

 

Regards,

Abhishek

[sasa]

i try this code

<?php
$html = 'bla bl
bla<div id="ST12345678_st" class="r_right_col">
<div class=""></div>
<div id=""><span class=""></span></div>
<div class=""></div>
<div class=""><span class=""></span></div>
<div class=""></div>
<div class="">
	<div style="" id=""
		fname=Abhishek
		lname=\'madhani\'
		division=8C
		house=\'Anything\'>
	</div>
</div>
</div>bla
bla
bla bl
bla<div id="ST22345678_st" class="r_right_col">
<div class=""></div>
<div id=""><span class=""></span></div>
<div class=""></div>
<div class=""><span class=""></span></div>
<div class=""></div>
<div class="">
	<div style="" id=""
		fname=Abhishek
		lname=\'madhani\'
		division=8C
		house=\'Anything\'>
	</div>
</div>
</div>bla
bla';
preg_match_all('/<div id="ST.*?house=\'Anything\'>\s*<\/div>\s*<\/div>\s*<\/div>/is', $html, $match);
print_r($match);
?>

and it output this

X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.0
Content-type: text/html

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => <div id="ST12345678_st" class="r_right_col">
<div class=""></div>
<div id=""><span class=""></span></div>
<div class=""></div>
<div class=""><span class=""></span></div>
<div class=""></div>
<div class="">
	<div style="" id=""
		fname=Abhishek
		lname='madhani'
		division=8C
		house='Anything'>
	</div>
</div>
</div>
            [1] => <div id="ST22345678_st" class="r_right_col">
<div class=""></div>
<div id=""><span class=""></span></div>
<div class=""></div>
<div class=""><span class=""></span></div>
<div class=""></div>
<div class="">
	<div style="" id=""
		fname=Abhishek
		lname='madhani'
		division=8C
		house='Anything'>
	</div>
</div>
</div>
        )

)