How do you parse a file and pull a block of markup?

[eluser]Sen Hu[/eluser]
Good question. Excellent responses so far.

Here is an alternate. You want to extract block-i-need-to-get from

...bunch of markups...
<div id="block-i-need-to-get">
<div>some content</div>
<div>some more content</div>
</div>
...more bunch of markups...

in file "someremotefile" ? (BTW: Thanks for accurately posting your requirements.)

Here is a small script.

Code:

var str content ; cat "[b]someremotefile[/b]" > $content
stex -c "^<div id=\"^]" $content > null
stex -c "[^\"^" $content > null
# What's remaining in $content is block-i-need-to-get . Print it.
echo $content

This script is written in biterscripting ( http://www.biterscripting.com/install.html ) . You can transform it to php.

Sen