Regular expression for span tag

Question

How to regex span tag exp.

<span id="n1">value here</span>

I need to get span id and "value here"?

You shouldn't use regex to parse HTML. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags — Nilpo, Aug 25 '12 at 23:29

Nilpo · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-26T02:34:16.693

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You shouldn't use regex to parse HTML. However, if you must, this should do it.

$regex = '#<span id="(.+?)">(.+?)</span>#';
preg_match($regex, $input, $groups);

$id = $groups[1];
$value = $groups[2];

This is in no ways absolutely bulletproof. Not by a long shot.

You should really take a look at something like DOMDocument

edited Aug 26 '12 at 02:34

answered Aug 25 '12 at 23:34

Nilpo

Nilpo have error: Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Unknown modifier '('... – Defense Aug 25 '12 at 23:38

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