Question

I currently have the code

$sPattern = "/<\/td><td>\(Shotgun\)(.*?)<\/td><td>/";
preg_match_all($sPattern,$homepage,$aMatch);

It works fine extracting multiple lines from a particular website but when it extracts them and echos them in an array it brings the </td><td> and </td><td> with it.

Is it possible to stop it from bringing those tags in the pattern with them?

Answer 1

Just echo what you’re capturing in the capturing group instead of the whole match:

foreach( $aMatch[1] as $match)
    echo $match;

If you want “(Shotgun)” in the output as well, modify your regex to capture it:

$sPattern = "/<\/td><td>(\(Shotgun\).*?)<\/td><td>/";

Then you can use the same code to print it out above.