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<?php $html=<<<'HTML' <div class="wrapper"> <div class="some_useless_div"> <p>Some useless text paragraph.</p> <div id="another_useless_div"> <p>The actual important part is: SOME_DYNAMIC_TEXT what I want to put into a variable. The text around that dynamic text is static text and will not change.</p> </div> </div> </div> HTML; preg_match('/The actual important part is\: (.*?) what I want to put into a variable\./',$html,$matches); $str=$matches[1]; var_dump($str);
Output for 5.6.0 - 5.6.40, 7.0.0 - 7.0.33, 7.1.0 - 7.1.33, 7.2.0 - 7.2.33, 7.3.0 - 7.3.33, 7.4.0 - 7.4.33, 8.0.0 - 8.0.30, 8.1.0 - 8.1.33, 8.2.0 - 8.2.29, 8.3.0 - 8.3.25, 8.4.1 - 8.4.12
string(17) "SOME_DYNAMIC_TEXT"

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