[bits] PHP sscanf() wildcard?

[Gregg Giles]

I’m developing a PHP script that grabs the contents of a web page, strips out all the tags, parses the contents for information I want, and puts that information into variables I can manipulate. There are certain keywords that remain fixed, but the associated values with each are dynamic. I’m using sscanf() to try and find the keyword and put the associated value into a variable. However, I need to use a wildcard to find what I want, but I don’t know what the wildcard syntax is. It needs to accommodate all possible characters, numbers, punctuation, etc.   Here’s a simplified example:   <?php $string=”My favorite color is: RED My dog’s name is: Rex My favorite food is: bacon My favorite number is: 665 more junk goes here”; $n = sscanf($string, “My favorite color is: %s”, &$color); $n = sscanf($string, “My dog’s name is: %s”, &$dog); $n = sscanf($string, “My favorite food is: %s”, &$food); $n = sscanf($string, “My favorite number is: %d”, &$number); ?>   I don’t think word/character position string functions would work in my actual code. Anyone?