Question

I have the the following HTML string.

<div id="mydiv">
<pre>
Some content several lines. 

   Field1: value 2
   Field2: value 2
   Field3: value 3

Some content. several lines.
</pre>
</div>

I’m trying to get the text within the <pre> tags and break it down to its fields, so I’m using DomDocument() loadHTML() DOMXPath and query('//pre') to get the text content of <pre>.

When I var_dump its nodeValue I get formatted text just as it if were displayed using <pre>. I’m not sure why that’s the case, but I’m wondering if this can somehow help me break up the text to fields/values.

Answer 1

If you just want to read it in then just do it like this.

<?php
$preStr = ""; //Holds the pre-string.
$preArr = explode("\n", $preStr);
$pairs = array();

foreach ($preArr AS $line) {
  $line = trim($line);

  if (stristr($line, ':')) {
    list($key, $value) = explode(':', $line);
    $pairs[$key] = $value;
  }
}