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How to parse and process HTML with PHP?

I have the following HTML output I want to match the data from it, tried with preg_match() and preg_match_all() with no success.

<td width="130" valign="top">
Jane Doe<br />
            101 Marisa Cir <br />
            Staten Island NY, 10309<br /><br>

I want to match the “address data” as:

Jane Doe, 101 Marisa Cir Staten Island NY, 10309

I fetch the page with CURL. I tried with something like this with no success:

preg_match('~<td width="130" valign="top">(.*?[^<])<br /><br>~i', $str, $showme);

Answer 1

You need to have the s modifier, as described here. It makes it so that the dot matches new lines. Because your text is over multiple lines, you need the s modifier. You can use a regex like this:

preg_match_all('~"top">(.*?)<br />(.*?)<br />(.*?)<br /><br>$~s', $text, $matches);

And that should work. See the codepad example here.