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I need some help … I’m a bit (read total) n00b when it comes to regular expressions, and need some help writing one to find a specific piece of text contained within a specific HTML tag from PHP.
The source string looks like this:
<span lang='en'>English Content</span><span lang='fr'>French content</span> ... etc ... I’d like to extract just the text of the element for a specific language.
Can anyone help?
There are plenty of HTML parsers available for PHP. I suggest you check out one of those, (for example: PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser).
Shooting yourself in the foot with trying to read HTML with regex is a lot easier than you think, and a lot harder to avoid than you wish (especially when you don’t know regex thoroughly, and your input is not guaranteed to be 100% clean HTML).