CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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user1486133
user1486133

Reputation: 1467

Get string from between tags whilst retaining rest of string

I have a string like:

<price>£10</price>Rimmel Super-Quick Mascara

I want to extract the string out of the <price> tags and also retain the string after the tags too. So:

$price = £10
$desc = Rimmel Super-Quick Mascara

How can I do this with PHP? I have attempted to use the following function I found but I get an unknown error in the regex, though I can't identify where.

function getTextBetweenTags($string, $tagname) {
    $pattern = "/<$tagname ?.*>(.*)<\/$tagname>/";
    preg_match($pattern, $string, $matches);
    return $matches[1];
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 36

Answers (2)

miglio
miglio

Reputation: 2058

Try this for both price and text:

$str = '<price>£10</price>Rimmel Super-Quick Mascara';

$text = preg_replace('/<[a-z]+>(.*?)<\/?[a-z]+>(.*?)/','$1|$2',$str);

$data = explode('|',$text);

var_dump($data);

response:

array (size=2)
  0 => string '£10' (length=3)
  1 => string 'Rimmel Super-Quick Mascara' (length=26)

In your function :

function getTextBetweenTags($string, $tagname) {
    $text = preg_replace("/<".$tagname.">(.*?)<\/?".$tagname.">(.*?)/","$1|$2",$string);
    $data = explode('|',$text);
    return $data;
}

Upvotes: 1

RiccardoC
RiccardoC

Reputation: 866

Try this

$pattern = "/.*?<$tagname.*?>(.*?)<\/$tagname.*?>/";
preg_match_all($pattern, $string, $matches );
return $matches[ 0 ][ 0 ];

Upvotes: 0

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