Parsing?

[acidglitter]

It might be called parsing but I'm not sure..

If I had a line that looked like this..

 

$string = "This text is <b id="one">bold</b> and so is <b id="two">this text</b>";

 

And this is what I want..

 

$words = "<b id="two">this text</b>";

 

What would I do to only select that part of the $string?

[Psycho]

You need to be more specific. What is the rule you will use to determine which text to extract? Are you looking for the text that is enclosed in a tag with id="two"?

 

Without any additional information, you could solve the above example with

 

$words = substr($string, 44);

 

But, I don't think that is really what you are looking for.

[paul2463]

how will the string manifest itself???

allways as above???

if so you can use <a href="http://uk2.php.net/substr"> substr() </a>

 

or you can use regex

[acidglitter]

You need to be more specific. What is the rule you will use to determine which text to extract? Are you looking for the text that is enclosed in a tag with id="two"?

 

Yea thats what I meant. Text inside b id="two"

[gabeg]

I would suggest using regex to pull out the part of the string you want