Regex to get the data from tag from any ID identifier in the tag?

Question

I have used the following regex to get the data between the tag below (Volkswagen Eos) from a page. The page I am working on, it has different id for every item (4222620).

preg_match_all('!<span class="p_t"><strong>(.*?)</strong></span>!is', $str2b, $names);

the HTML code is below.

    <div>
      <span id="clsfd_title_4222620" class="p_t" id=""><strong>Volkswagen Eos</strong></span>
    </div>

Unfortunately I can not get the data. Is this because I didn't use the whole tag? If so, what is a regex I can use to get the data of any written ID?

Thank you

I am not sure if anyone has suggested this before but have you looked into [DOM](http://php.net/manual/en/book.dom.php)? — MonkeyZeus, Nov 20 '13 at 22:13
@MonkeyZeus I am aware of DOM, but I built this using regex from the begining and this is the only question to fix the entire problem. Do you think that this can be solved easily with DOM? — EnexoOnoma, Nov 20 '13 at 22:14

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 20 '13 at 22:23

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If you do not mind about id value and id value does not have space or tabs, I think, the regex like this can be used:

<span (?:id="\S*" )?class="p_t"(?: id="\S*")><strong>(.*?)</strong></span>

answered Nov 20 '13 at 22:23

VladimirM

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Regex to get the data from tag from any ID identifier in the tag?

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