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I have a string containing:

< a href="/wiki/Bob" title="Bob" >

There are ten and more unrelated data in bettween them that i don't need. Basically, I want the title for each one placed in an arrray and they're different. I thought this would be easy, but I can't find out how to do it. Perhaps using explode() and a wildcard, but apparently you can't use a wildcard?

Any help greatly appreciated.

EDIT:I forgot to mention that the will change every week form 'Bob' for example to 'Tim'.

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Can you please show an example of some data and how you'd like it split? –  Surreal Dreams Feb 6 '11 at 17:54
    
preg_split() might be an alternative; or domdocument as you're trying to extract data from html markup... but showing us an example of what you need might help. –  Mark Baker Feb 6 '11 at 17:54
    
<th align="center" style="width:10%;"><a href="/wiki/Bob" title="Bob"><img alt="BobSquare.png" src="image" width="48" height="48" /></a><br /><a href="/wiki/Bob" title="Bob" class="mw-redirect">Bob</a> This only 10 times over and instead of Bob there are other names. I just want the naem out of it. –  Sondar Feb 6 '11 at 17:57
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Maybe something like this?

<?php
$string = '<th align="center" style="width:10%;"><a href="/wiki/Bob" title="Bob"><img alt="BobSquare.png" src="image" width="48" height="48" /></a><br /><a href="/wiki/Bob" title="Bob" class="mw-redirect">Bob</a>';

$title_array = array();
$explode = explode('title="', $string);
unset($title_array[0]);
foreach($title_array as $k => $v)
{
    $explode_string = explode('"', $v);
    $title_array[] = $explode_string[0];
}

print_r($title_array);
?>

Output:

Array
(
    [0] => Bob
    [1] => Bob
)

Hope that helps ;-)

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That's great thanks :) –  Sondar Feb 6 '11 at 18:49
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