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A quick preg_match query...
I have some html like this...
<html>
...
lots of irrelevant stuff
...
<th>
Full name:</th>
<td>
John Smith</td>
</tr>
...
</html>
And here's my preg string
'/<th>\s*Full name:\s*<\/th>\s*<td>(.*)<\/td>/i'
I'm trying to grab 'John Smith', but I'm just drawing blanks. Any ideas?
</div>
Because the . in .* does not match newlines. You can either use \s*(.*), which you probably want, or use the s modifier.