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    copied!<p>You absolutely do NOT want to parse HTML with Regex.</p> <p>There are far too many variations, for one, and more importantly, regex isn't very good with the hierarchal nature of HTML. It's best to use an XML parser or better-yet an HTML-specific parser.</p> <p>Whenever I need to scrape HTML, I tend to use the <a href="http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/" rel="noreferrer">Simple HTML DOM Parser</a> library, which takes an HTML tree and parses it into a traversable PHP object, which you can query something like JQuery.</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php require 'simplehtmldom/simple_html_dom.php'; $sHtml = &lt;&lt;&lt;EOS &lt;table border="1" &gt; &lt;tbody style="" &gt; &lt;tr style="" &gt; &lt;td style="color:blue;"&gt; data0 &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td style="font-size:15px;"&gt; data1 &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td style="font-size:15px;"&gt; data2 &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td style="color:blue;"&gt; data3 &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td style="color:blue;"&gt; data4 &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr style="" &gt; &lt;td style="color:blue;"&gt; data00 &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td style="font-size:15px;"&gt; data11 &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td style="font-size:15px;"&gt; data22 &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td style="color:blue;"&gt; data33 &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td style="color:blue;"&gt; data44 &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr style="color:black" &gt; &lt;td style="color:blue;"&gt; data000 &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td style="font-size:15px;"&gt; data111 &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td style="font-size:15px;"&gt; data222 &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td style="color:blue;"&gt; data333 &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td style="color:blue;"&gt; data444 &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt; &lt;/table&gt; EOS; $oHTML = str_get_html($sHtml); $oTRs = $oHTML-&gt;find('table tr'); $aData = array(); foreach($oTRs as $oTR) { $aRow = array(); $oTDs = $oTR-&gt;find('td'); foreach($oTDs as $oTD) { $aRow[] = trim($oTD-&gt;plaintext); } $aData[] = $aRow; } var_dump($aData); ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>And the output:</p> <pre><code>array 0 =&gt; array 0 =&gt; string 'data0' (length=5) 1 =&gt; string 'data1' (length=5) 2 =&gt; string 'data2' (length=5) 3 =&gt; string 'data3' (length=5) 4 =&gt; string 'data4' (length=5) 1 =&gt; array 0 =&gt; string 'data00' (length=6) 1 =&gt; string 'data11' (length=6) 2 =&gt; string 'data22' (length=6) 3 =&gt; string 'data33' (length=6) 4 =&gt; string 'data44' (length=6) 2 =&gt; array 0 =&gt; string 'data000' (length=7) 1 =&gt; string 'data111' (length=7) 2 =&gt; string 'data222' (length=7) 3 =&gt; string 'data333' (length=7) 4 =&gt; string 'data444' (length=7) </code></pre>
 

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