Using simple_html_dom to check for only part of the class name

Question

Sorry if the title of this question is poor. Allow me to explain myself (but do bear in mind that I am new to programming, and even newer to StackOverflow, both of which I am loving).

Basically I am scraping data from a particular cell in an HTML table on Site X. The name of the particular cell would be something like id="xyz/part_to_check/". In other words, I need to have simple_html_dom only pull data from the cell that has the class id that ENDS with a particular name, while avoiding other cells who's name might all begin with the same thing.

When I tell simple_html_dom to check for a cell, it would be something like

$html->find("a[href="name of cell goes here"]");

How can I have the "name of cell" only be for cells who's name ENDS with what I want to?

I hope I was somewhat clear here. I do apologize if I wasn't. Again, new to this whole thing. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Add a $ before the = sign:

$html->find('a[href$="someValue"]');
//                 ^ This indicates that the href should END with that string.