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Clean-up a long string contents ...

Sun, 30 May 2010 23:37:05 -0700

Hello everyone,
I tried to clean-up some html tags(i.e. , , <img ...>, etc) and just leave <tr><td>Expresions</td></tr> expressions for the given string below.

<tr><td>ISSN:</b></td><td bgcolor="#eeeeee" valign=top halign=left width="70%"><font face="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">1097-6353</td></tr><tr align=left><td valign=top width="25%" ><font face="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1"><b>Title:</b></td><td valign=top width="70%" ><font face="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1"><tr align=left><td width="60%" valign=top><font face="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">A-E-C Systems</font></td><td width="40%" align=right valign=top><font face="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2"><a href="#AdditionalTitleInfo"><img src="http://www.programmersheaven.com/ulrichsweb/images/fullCitation/tri
_arrow_down.gif" width=11 height=6 border=0 alt="Additional Title Information" vspace=0 hspace=10>Additional Title Information</a></font></td></tr></table>

I tried several way with regular expressions but could not succeed.
Any help will be apperciated ...
thank you.

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Mon, 31 May 2010 23:49:33 -0700

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Re: Clean-up a long string contents ...

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:55:29 -0700

Maybe this works:

$search = "%(<[A-Za-z]+)(.*?)(>)%is";
$replace = "\\1\\3";
$newString = preg_replace($search,$replace, $oldString);

Re: Clean-up a long string contents ...

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:40:54 -0700

Why not just use the strip_tags function?

$oldString ='<tr><td>ISSN:</b></td><td bgcolor="#eeeeee" valign=top halign=left width="70%"><font face="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">1097-6353</td></tr>';

$newString = strip_tags($oldString, '<tr><td>');

echo $oldString . "\n";
echo $newString;

Re: Clean-up a long string contents ...

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 06:03:23 -0700

I think he wants to clean styles also and strip_tags don't work for that.

If you have something like "<td style='xxx'>hello</td>" with strip_tags will result "<td style='xxx'>hello</td>" and I guess he wants to get "<td>hello</td>".