Posted by "Richard Lynch" on 11/10/05 23:13

On Thu, November 10, 2005 8:56 am, Normmy2k wrote:
> Example
> I have this string :
> $text='<td></td>
> <td align="right" class="yfnc_tabledata3"></td>
> <td></td>
> <td align="right" class="yfnc_tabledata2"></td>
> <td></td>
> <td align="right" class="yfnc_tabledata1">1234</td>
> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td align="right"
> class="yfnc_tabledata5"></td> ';
>
> And I want to retrieve the number 1234 between <td align="right"
> class="yfnc_tabledata1"> and </td>

If that string is consistently what you have, then this would also work:

$number = (int) trim(strip_tags($text));

This may prove more resilent to HTML changes from the source that is
generating all those table tags...

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