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finding the beginning of certain tags


yahn

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I want to find the beginning of html, head and body tags.  I'm using /<?/html|/<?/head/|/<?/body/ what am I doing wrong?  I'm not very good with regex, so probably a lot, but if someone could help me out I would really appreciate it.

 

Thank you.

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What do you mean you want to find the beginning?  Do you just want to verify the tags, or do you want some content, too?

 

<?php

// To simply verify tags, you can use:
preg_match_all('/<(?:html|head|body)[^>]*>/i',$html,$matches);

// To capture the opening tags, use:
preg_match_all('/(<(?:html|head|body)[^>]*>)/i',$html,$matches);

// To capture the opening tag, closing tag, and everything in between:
preg_match_all('/<(html|head|body)[^>]*>(.*?)<\/\1>/i',$html,$matches);

?>

 

You can use the PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE flag to find where the offset is.

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I just want to find the tag itself.  I want to be able to find <body and </body.  it is finding <body but it's not finding </body.  My regex now is: /(<(?:html|head|body)[^>]*>)/i .  Is there anything wrong?

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