Regex and PHP for extracting contents between tags with several line breaks
- by John
How can I extract the content between tags with several line breaks?
I'm a newbie to regex, who would like to know how to handle unknown numbers of line break to match my query.
Task: Extract content between <div class="test"> and the first closing </div> tag.
Original source:
<div class="test">optional text<br/>
content<br/>
<br/>
content<br/>
...
content<br/><a href="/url/">Hyperlink</a></div></div></div>
I've worked out the below regex,
/<div class=\"test\">(.*?)<br\/>(.*?)<\/div>/
Just wonder how to match several line breaks using regex.
There is DOM for us but I am not familiar with that.
