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Thanks for your response. One other pattern I am looking for is:<br />
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all text between the patterns:<br />
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&lt;/span&gt;\n,(space)*******, &nbsp;or &nbsp; &nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;\n,(space)*******\n<wbr /><br />
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i.e. all text starting with&lt;/span&gt; followed by a \n, comma, a single space and ending with a comma or \n. This is the expression i have come up with and it does not seem to work. Can you pls help?<br />
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&quot;/\&lt;\/span\&gt;\\n,\&quot; \&quot;,(.*)(,|\\n)/&quot;
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I am trying to find all sub-strings in a webpage having the following format &quot;&lt;span&gt;*******&lt;/span&gt;&quot;. Here, **** can be any text;. So the output array should contain something like:<br />
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&lt;span&gt;New York&lt;/span&gt;<br />
&lt;span&gt;Paris&lt;/span&gt;<br />
&lt;span&gt;Sydney&lt;/span&gt;<br />
and so on. <br />
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I saw that there is a call 'preg_match_all'. Somehow, I couldn't come up with a proper regular expression for the same. Request experts to help me solve this problem.
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I am trying to find all sub-strings in a webpage having the following format "<span>*******</span>". Here, **** can be any text;. So the output array should contain something like:

<span>New York</span>
<span>Paris</span>
<span>Sydney</span>
and so on. 

I saw that there is a call 'preg_match_all'. Somehow, I couldn't come up with a proper regular expression for the same. Request experts to help me solve this problem.

Thanks for your response. One other pattern I am looking for is:

all text between the patterns:

&lt;/span&gt;\n,(space)*******,  or    &lt;/span&gt;\n,(space)*******\n

i.e. all text starting with&lt;/span&gt; followed by a \n, comma, a single space and ending with a comma or \n. This is the expression i have come up with and it does not seem to work. Can you pls help?

&quot;/\&lt;\/span\&gt;\\n,\&quot; \&quot;,(.*)(,|\\n)/&quot;

Trying to find patterns of substring in a larger string in PHP

I am trying to find all sub-strings in a webpage having the following format &quot;&lt;span&gt;*******&lt;/span&gt;&quot;. Here, **** can be any text;. So the output array should contain something like:

&lt;span&gt;New York&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span&gt;Paris&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span&gt;Sydney&lt;/span&gt;
and so on. 

I saw that there is a call &#39;preg_match_all&#39;. Somehow, I couldn&#39;t come up with a proper regular expression for the same. Request experts to help me solve this problem.

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