Posted by crescent_au on 07/06/06 15:55

Hi all,

I've been trying unsuccessfully to get the text from html page. Html
tag that I'm interested in looks like this:

<a class=link
href="http://www.something.com/_something.php?type=cart">Shopping
Cart</a>
<div><em class=newentry><a href=http://nothing.com>New
Age</a></em></div>

>From the above tag, I want to extract "Shopping Cart". I'm not very
good with RE. I tried this:
$lines = file_get_contents("http://theabovetag.com/page.html");
preg_match_all("/(<a\ class\=link\ href\=(.*)>)(<\/a>)/", $lines,
$matches1);

The above RE gives me "Shopping Cart" plus "New Age" as well. I just
want "Shopping Cart". What am I doing wrong? My RE is somehow ignoring
</a> tag right after Shopping Cart and instead accepting </a> after New
Age. Please help!

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