but regex is just so much more hardcore! :-)))))))) http://www.delicious.com/ejpusa/regex
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Yitzchak Schaffer <yitzchak.schaf...@gmx.com> wrote: >> 2010/11/19 Peter Sawczynec <p...@blu-studio.com <mailto:p...@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. > > -- > Yitzchak Schaffer > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation > -- IM/iChat: ejpusa Links: http://del.icio.us/ejpusa Follow me: http://www.twitter.com/ejpusa Karma: http://www.coderswithconscience.com _______________________________________________ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation
