I wanted to parse following html tags contents retrieved through curl by regular expressions.
<span class='ui-allscores'>IND - 203/9 (49.4 Ovs)</span>
so that output will be "IND - 203/9 (49.4 Ovs)".
I have written following code but it is not working.please help.
$one="<span class='ui-allscores'>IND - 203/9 (49.4 Ovs)</span>";
$five="~(?<=<span class='ui-allscores'>)[.]*(?=</br></span>)~";
preg_match_all($five,$one,$ui);
print_r($ui);
Try this one:
$string = "<span class='ui-allscores'>IND - 203/9 (49.4 Ovs)</span>";
Dynamic span tag:
preg_match('/<span[^>]*>(.*?)<\/span>/si', $string, $matches);
Specific span tag:
preg_match("/<span class='ui-allscores'>(.*?)<\/span>/si", $string, $matches);
// Output
array (size=2)
0 => string '<span class='ui-allscores'>IND - 203/9 (49.4 Ovs)</span>' (length=56)
1 => string 'IND - 203/9 (49.4 Ovs)' (length=22)
If you simply want to remove the HTML tags, Use the php built-in function strip_tags to remove the html tags.
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The problem of your regex is the [.] part. This is matching only a literal ., because the dot is written inside a character class. So just remove the square brackets.
$five="~(?<=<span class='ui-allscores'>).*(?=</br></span>)~";
The next problem then is the greediness of *. You can change this matching behaviour by putting a ? behind.
$five="~(?<=<span class='ui-allscores'>).*?(?=</br></span>)~";
But the overall point is: You should most probably use a html parser for this job!