I have a HTML document with the a table which I want to replace, however I don't know what the content of the table will be so I need to search for the opening and closing table tags and then replace the content between them. I'm a bit of a n00b with regular expressions so I'm having trouble working out how to do this... any ideas?
Update: The HTML in question is available to me as a string and开发者_运维知识库 I'm not able to insert any extra data or change the HTML in any way... I need to be able to search for a opening and closing pattern at the start and end of the table in the HTML and then replace the contents in-between. :)
Do NOT use regular expressons for this, look into parsers. For instance, load the HTML in a DOMDocument
instance, search the table with either DOMXPath
or getElementsByTagName
, and use the replaceNode
or other manipulation functions. Doing it with regexes is usually very unreliable.
Is the HTML document your own, or file_get_contents()
ed from a another site? If the first, just change the HTML to
<html>
...
<table>
<?php echo $tableString ?>
</table>
...
</html>
and give it a .php
or .inc
extension. Then, in your main file:
<?php
$tableString = calcTableContents();
require('includedHTML.inc');
?>
No point parsing HTML if you don't have to.
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