// Get the webpage into a string
$html = join ("", file ("http://www.altavista.com"));
// Using eregi
eregi("<title>(.*)</title>", $html, $tag_contents);
// Using preg_match (faster than eregi)
// The i in the end means that it is a case insensitive match
preg_match("/<title>(.*)<\/title>/i", $html, $tag_contents);
$title = $tag_contents[1];
// Tobias
"Chris Empson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Could anyone tell me how to extract a string from between a pair of HTML
> tags?
>
> Specifically, I would like to extract the page title from between the
> <title> and </title> tags. I have read the regular expression docs and I'm
> still a bit stuck.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Chris Empson
>
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