getting text between two comments

[Nigel]

I have access to a page that stores data as HTML. The code has two comments
around the data that I want to get called <!-- START --> and <!-- END -->

Question is, how do i read the page and grab the code that is between these
two comments

Nigel

[Tim Van Wassenhove]

On 2004-01-12, Nigel <no****@here.com> wrote:

I have access to a page that stores data as HTML. The code has two comments
around the data that I want to get called <!-- START --> and <!-- END -->

Question is, how do i read the page and grab the code that is between these
two comments

You can find all your answers in the manual. http://www.php.net/manual

Opening, reading and closing a file -> file functions.
Finding something in a string -> string functions.
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http://home.mysth.be/~timvw

[Chung Leong]

To read the page, use file_get_contents(<filename>). To get the code use
preg_match(), like this:

if(preg_match('/<!-- START -->(.*)<!-- END -->/', $html, $matches)) {
$code = $matches[1];
}

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I have access to a page that stores data as HTML. The code has two comments around the data that I want to get called <!-- START --> and <!-- END -->

Question is, how do i read the page and grab the code that is between these two comments

Nigel

[Chung Leong]

Oops, forgot the s modifier. Should be like this:

if(preg_match('/<!-- START -->(.*)<!-- END -->/s', $html, $matches)) {
$code = $matches[1];
}

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To read the page, use file_get_contents(<filename>). To get the code use
preg_match(), like this:

if(preg_match('/<!-- START -->(.*)<!-- END -->/', $html, $matches)) {
$code = $matches[1];
}

Uzytkownik "Nigel" <no****@here.com> napisal w wiadomosci
news:bt*******************@news.demon.co.uk...

I have access to a page that stores data as HTML. The code has two

comments

around the data that I want to get called <!-- START --> and <!-- END -->
Question is, how do i read the page and grab the code that is between

these

two comments

Nigel