php question?

Question

how can you strip the text between search mark, for example"
=======================
WORDS
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how can i strip the text from the string that is contained in the "" and "" tags?..

Answer 1

You can use a regular expression and preg_match.

$haystack = "WORDS";
$pattern = "/(<.*>)(.*)()/";
$return = preg_match($pattern, $haystack);

$return will be a four-cell array. $return[0] contains all of $haystack. $return[1] contains , $return[2] contains WORDS. $return[3] contains .

http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php

Answer 2

I agree with dhvrm and also you need
to be careful on using the regexp in
non-greedy mode.