Regular expression to extract data inside an html code php

Question

how can i extract the data inside this html code

<dl class="col1">
  <dt>Type:</dt>

  <dd><a href="/browse/102" title="More from this category">Audio &gt; Audio books</a></dd>

i need to extract the

Audio > Audio books from the html code using regex in php

Answer 1

Could you not use XPaths?

 $dom = new DOMDocument();
 $dom->loadHTML($yourhtmlstring);
 $x = new DOMXpath($dom);
 foreach($x->query("//dl[@class='col1']/dd/a/text()") as $text) echo htmlentity_decode($text);

Answer 2

Try this:

preg_match('/<dd><a[^>]*>(.*)<\/a><\/dd>/', $htmlcode, $matches);
$result = $matches[1];