How to remove "<>" brackets from string in php? - php

Question

$cont=htmlspecialchars(file_get_contents("https://myanimelist.net/anime/30276/One_Punch_Man"));
function getBetween($string, $start = "", $end = ""){
if (strpos($string, $start)) { // required if $start not exist in $string
$startCharCount = strpos($string, $start) + strlen($start);
$firstSubStr = substr($string, $startCharCount, strlen($string));
$endCharCount = strpos($firstSubStr, $end);
if ($endCharCount == 0) {
$endCharCount = strlen($firstSubStr);
}
return substr($firstSubStr, 0, $endCharCount);
} else {
return '';
}
}
$name=getBetween($cont,'title',' - MyAnimeList.net');
//$name=preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z0-9 \p{L}]/m', '', $name);
preg_replace('/(*UTF8)[\>\<]/m', '', $name);
trim($name," ");
//$name=str_replace("gt", "", $name);
echo $name;
i want to find the text between title tags. how to do this?
for example in this page title contains 'One Punch Man - MyAnimeList.net' i want to get that

Answer 1

Just use string replace function:
$string = '<BoomBox>';
$string = str_replace('<', '', $string);
$string = str_replace('>', '', $string);
echo $string; // output: Boombox
http://php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php

Answer 2

You edited your answer, and we can now see you are dealing with XML/HTML. It's always better to work with the DOM classes. Never use regex! There is a famous Stack Overflow post explaining why never to parse html with regex. Try this solution instead:
<?php
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTML('<title>BoomBox</title>');
echo $dom->getElementsByTagName('title')->item(0)->textContent;
http://php.net/manual/en/class.domdocument.php
http://php.net/manual/en/class.domnode.php
See it working here https://3v4l.org/EjPQd

Answer 3

You can use preg_replace();, or strip_tags();.
Example preg_replace();:
$str = '> One Punch Man';
$new = preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z0-9 \p{L}]/m', '', $str);
echo $new;
Output: One Punch Man
Above example will only allow a-z, A-Z and 0-9. You can expand this.
Example strip_tags();:
$str = '<title> BoomBox </title>';
$another = strip_tags($str);
echo $another;
Output: BoomBox
Documentation:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php // preg_replace();
http://php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php // strip_tags();

Answer 4

You can also use a single call to str_replace with the ['<','>'] as the search argument:
$string = '<BoomBox>';
echo str_replace(['<', '>'], '', $string) . PHP_EOL;
// => Boombox
Or, you may use a regex with preg_replace (especially, if you plan on adding more restrictions for in-context matching to it):
echo preg_replace('~[<>]~', '', $string);
// => Boombox
See the PHP demo.