Regex get string in tag

Question

I have this code:

$body = '<p>awesometext:data</p>';
preg_match_all("/<p>([^<]+)<\/p>/", $body, $matches);
$string = array_map('trim', $matches[1]);

In result I get empty array $string. How I can fix it?

String can be is more. Example:

$body = '<p>awesometext:data</p><p>othertext:data</p><p>sss:sddd</p>'; //e.t.c

[Don't use regexes for parsing HTML](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454) — John Conde, Dec 30 '18 at 15:39
Your examples have no leading/trailing whitespace. What do you want to happen? Do you have other examples? — user3783243, Dec 30 '18 at 16:00
Works fine for me too @RobbieAverill and also with the longer string — Samuel, Dec 30 '18 at 16:27
[Parsing HTML with regex is hard job](https://stackoverflow.com/a/4234491/372239) — Toto, Dec 30 '18 at 16:33

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 31 '18 at 11:08

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If I understood you correctly, to get the strings inside the p tag you can:

let str = '<p>awesometext:data</p><p>othertext:data</p><p>sss:sddd</p>';
let matches = str.replace(/<p>|<\/p>/gi, ' ').trim().match(/([a-z]+?:[a-z]+)/gi);

matches would return an array of strings. Please note the above expression doesn't solve for edge cases. i.e leading/trail spaces, etc.

answered Dec 31 '18 at 11:08

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I need PHP, but not javascript – Dumitru Dec 31 '18 at 11:29

Regex get string in tag

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