Strip table from HTML scrape

[johnsmith153]

I have scraped some data from a website and have the HTML. I just need to now remove a table from that HTML, so I'm guessing I need to search in the HTML for a start and end <table> tag.

 

If there is more than one table, then I want to remove all of them.

 

Can someone point me in the right direction?

 

Also, removing images would be great (anything with <img).

 

 

[Adam]

You can use a regular expression:

 

$html = preg_replace('/<table[^>]*>.*?<\/table>/s', '', $html);

 

That will match any opening table tag with or without attributes, up until the first found closing table tag, and then replace it all with nothing. Also preg_replace() will replace all occurences unless you tell it not to, using the 4th parameter.