Question

I’m trying to make a regex for taking some data out of a table.

the code i’ve got now is:

<table>
   <tr>
     <td>quote1</td>
     <td>have you trying it off and on again ?</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td>quote65</td>
     <td>You wouldn't steal a helmet of a policeman</td>
   </tr>
</table>

This I want to replace by:

quote1:have you trying it off and on again ?

quote65:You wouldn’t steal a helmet of a policeman

the code that I already have written is this:

%<td>((?s).*?)</td>%

But now I’m stuck.

Answer 1

Tim’s regex probably works, but you may want to consider using the DOM functionality of PHP instead of regex, as it may be more reliable in dealing with minor changes in the markup.

See the loadHTML method