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[Chuck Reeves]

Which is why regex wont help that much.  Using tidy with domdoc could help
out very well:

http://php.net/manual/en/book.tidy.php
<http://php.net/manual/en/book.tidy.php>
Thank You
Chuck Reeves




On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Yitzchak Schaffer <
yitzchak.schaffer at gmx.com> wrote:

> > 2010/11/19 Peter Sawczynec <ps at blu-studio.com <mailto:ps at blu-studio.com
> >>
>
> >
> >     I need to be able to grab the first 10 words or so from a HTML laden
> >     text string that is held in a db table field where the typical field
> >     content might be as follows below. After the processing, being left
> >     with only the straight text with punctuation would be fine
> >
>
> On 19-Nov-10 10:06, Chuck Reeves wrote:
>
>> I would recommend using DOMDocument instead of regex.
>>
>>
> ... unless of course the HTML is subject to wonkiness.
>
> --
> Yitzchak Schaffer
>
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