Question

I have used file_get_contents() to basically get the source code of a site into a single string variable.

The source contains many rows that looks like this:
<td align="center"><a href="somewebsite.com/something">12345</a></td>

(and a lot of rows that don’t look like that). I want to extract all the idnumbers (12345 above) and put them in an array. How can I do that? I assume I want to use some kind of regular expressions and then use the preg_match_all() function, but I’m not sure how…

Answer 1

Try this:

preg_match('/>[0-9]+<\/a><\/td>/', $str, $matches);
for($i = 0;$i<sizeof($matches);$i++)
 $values[] = $matches[$i];