Removing Unwanted Text

[cheadirl]

Hi ,

I've been trying to figure this one out and I'm stumped !

I have a .csv file that contains a lot of data and is auto uploaded to a DB,  problem is there is no formatting on the fields.

So I have a field of this :

aghahafgfhfhafgafhkafhfha </TEXT I WANT/> lsgfslgjfasghsjkldfhgsklgh </MORE TEXT I WANT/>

I dont think str_replace() will work for what I want to do - Im trying to only display the text inside the </ /> out onto my site, essentially removing the unwanted stuff. 

I do need to keep the unwanted in the DB just not displaying it on the page ?

Does anyone have any idea how I might get this to work ?

Thanks
CheadIRL

[dgiberson]

You could use a regular expression to do this....

[cheadirl]

Sorry dont get what you mean - I've looked all over for the answer to this - I've got a script that will extract text but not multiple times ! I need it to do that .

If a regular expression will do any chance you could help me out with it ?

[Orio]

[code]<?php

$txt = <<<DATA
aghahafgfhfhafgafhkafhfha </TEXT I WANT/> lsgfslgjfasghsjkldfhgsklgh </MORE TEXT I WANT/>
epogkpef </PART 3 of the text you want/>
ieof
ewegwegewg
</more info/>
DATA;

$regex = "/\<\/(.*?)\/\>/";
preg_match_all($regex, $txt, $matches);

$results = $matches[1];

echo "<pre>";
print_r($results);
echo "</pre>";

?>[/code]

Orio.

[cheadirl]

Hey,

Thanks for this - worked a treat I've twaeked it a bit to grab results from a DB and do it with them all much appreciated

Chead IRL