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Its called web scraping.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping" rel="ugc">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping</a>
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Assuming you put your data into a string variable called $data, then the following will pick out matches<br />
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$pattern = '~(\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4})~s';<br />
$matches = array();<br />
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if ( preg_match_all( $pattern, $data, $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE ) &gt;&nbsp;0 ) {<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; echo &quot;Matches are:&lt;br/&gt;&quot;;<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; print_r( $matches );<br />
}<br />
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The PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE allows you to determine the offset from the start of the string in characters<br />
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i need to find out any US phone number in this format xxx-xxx-xxxx whether it exist in the text or string using PHP. can anyone help with this.<br />
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i need to find out any US phone number in this format xxx-xxx-xxxx whether it exist in the text or string using PHP. can anyone help with this.



get the any phone number xxx-xxx-xxxx from text

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