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Francisc
Francisc

Reputation: 80485

RexExp in PHP for this pattern

I need help with getting a part of an XML file with tags like this:

<SomeTag><![CDATA[TEXT I WANT HERE]]></SomeTag>

I've been playing around with RexExp for this, and can't get it right. Can you suggest the proper way please?

EDIT:
Not interested in XML parsing for this particular case.
can be anything, not just "SomeTag". Same with "Text I want here".

Thank you.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 112

Answers (4)

Yoann
Yoann

Reputation: 5097

With http://regexp.zug.fr/ I write un 5 sec a very simple pattern

preg_match_all("`<!\[CDATA\[(.*?)\]\]>`U", $source, $matches);

Upvotes: 2

vbence
vbence

Reputation: 20343

You don't even need RegEx for this. Simple strpos is enough:

$start = strpos ($text, '<SomeTag><![CDATA[');
$end = strpos ($text, ']]></SomeTag>', $start);
return substr ($text, $start, $end - $start);

Upvotes: 0

Poelinca Dorin
Poelinca Dorin

Reputation: 9713

As everibody else suggested use an xml parser for this job. The code bellow will show you how to do it with regex but it's not the proper way of doing things!

$string = '<SomeTag><![CDATA[TEXT I WANT HERE]]></SomeTag>';

preg_match_all('/<sometag><\!\[CDATA\[(.*)\]\]><\/sometag>/i', $string, $matches);
var_dump($matches);
preg_match_all('/<\!\[CDATA\[(.*)\]\]>/', $string, $matches);
var_dump($matches);

Upvotes: 0

Raffael
Raffael

Reputation: 20045

I suggest you use SimpleXML.

Upvotes: 1

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