PHP regex needed

Question

So far this captures everything i need ending with 'em' i need regex to capture paragraphs ending in 'ppp' also.

My regex:

%<h2>Storyline</h2>(.*)em%s

What? Could you give an example of what you want captured, and what you don't want captured? — Oliver Charlesworth
– Oliver Charlesworth, Commented Jan 9, 2011 at 11:40
Anything that starts with <h2>Storyline</h2> and ends with em OR ppp (stops capturing at the first occurrence of em OR ppp) — el_pup_le
– el_pup_le, Commented Jan 9, 2011 at 11:42

BoltClock · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-09 11:43:53Z

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I would advise not to parse HTML with regex, but this seems easy enough seeing as you aren't actually parsing it as HTML...

%<h2>Storyline</h2>(.*?)(?:em|ppp)%s

answered Jan 9, 2011 at 11:43

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el_pup_le Over a year ago

Why shouldn't HTML be parsed with regex?

BoltClock Over a year ago

If your HTML consists of a very simple format or one-liner then there is nothing wrong with using regex. However if the structure is unpredictable or large, you're much better off using a parser, like DOMDocument, which will handle all the parsing of the markup for you so you can focus on getting the information from the markup.

Gordon Over a year ago

@aLk see Best Methods to parse HTML

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