Just Signed Up. Eregi Question...

[rockyracoon]

I have an HTML page with blocks of text seperated by two "<hr><hr>" tags.

I am trying to display each "match" as a seperate array item like this:

$matches[6]
$matches[7]
$matches[8]

As of now, only [0] works, and it shows up as one huge block with all the matches! any ideas? preg_match perhaps???

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$html = file("test.html");
$string = implode("", $html);

eregi ("<HR><HR>.*<HR><HR>", $string, $matches);

echo "$matches[0]";
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[sde]

hey rocky.. thanks for signing up =)

can i see an example of the HTML page you are trying to parse?

you can attach it if you want. i think it will make more sense to me if i can see that.

thanks,
-mike

ps. feel free to email it to me if you'd rather do that.

[sde]

http://www.milanointeractive.com/eregi.php

this is what the text.html looks like:
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<hr><hr>this is some text <hr><hr>
<hr><hr>aaaaaaaaaa <hr><hr>
<hr><hr>bbbbbbbb<hr><hr>
<hr><hr>ccccccc <hr><hr>
<hr><hr>dddddddd <hr><hr>
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and this is what eregi.php looks like:
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<?

$html = file("test.html");
$string = implode("", $html);

eregi ("<HR><HR>.*<HR><HR>", $string, $matches);

foreach($matches as $a){
echo "$a<br>";
}

?>

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not sure if that is what you were trying to do... now you can always strip away the <hr> tags if you would like to in the foreach statement: for example:


foreach($matches as $a){
str_replace("<hr>","",$a);
echo "$a<br>";
}

anyhow.. good luck

[rockyracoon]

i actually want to turn each instance (instance being the blocks of text inside the <hr><hr>) and be able to call it from an array.


<hr><hr>this text number 1<hr><hr>
<hr><hr>this text number 2<hr><hr>
<hr><hr>this text number 3<hr><hr>
<hr><hr>this text number 4<hr><hr>

$array[3] will produce "this text number 3"

right now $array[3] or [5] or whatever produces nothing.
$array[0] produces all matches...

[sde]

lets look at this a little different:

<?
// this brings each line from test.html into an array "html[]"
$html = file("test.html");

// this brings all elements from the array $html[] into one variable named $string
$string = implode("", $html);

// this takes all places where there are 4 hr tags.. and make them 2
$string=str_replace("<hr><hr><hr><hr>","<hr><hr>", $string);

// now explode $string into an array
$array=explode("<hr><hr>",$string);
?>

hehe, how fun .. i didn't test this, but i think it might work.

[MiLady Mirlyn]

Looks like more NUM material to me...

RockyRacoon... wanna make it into one once you get it worked out? :rock: