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[nycphp-talk] PHP Regexp Classic Challenge

Yitzchak Schaffer yitzchak.schaffer at gmx.com
Fri Nov 19 11:27:09 EST 2010


 > 2010/11/19 Peter Sawczynec <ps at blu-studio.com <mailto:ps at blu-studio.com>>
 >
 >     I need to be able to grab the first 10 words or so from a HTML laden
 >     text string that is held in a db table field where the typical field
 >     content might be as follows below. After the processing, being left
 >     with only the straight text with punctuation would be fine
 >

On 19-Nov-10 10:06, Chuck Reeves wrote:
> I would recommend using DOMDocument instead of regex.
>

... unless of course the HTML is subject to wonkiness.

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Yitzchak Schaffer



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