Alternatives to Regular Expressions

As a php programmer who has to deal daily with regular expressions, sometimes they are just overkill for a simple job. Other times, I just don’t feel like trying to figure out the regex when I am trying to extract content just once (and code optimization is just not important). Below,I have thrown together a handful of PHP functions that I regularly use to help accomplish these tasks. GetSingleMatch This code allows you to easily grab a single bit of text out of a document by describing what text or code occurs right before and right after the text you are targetting. This calls for the $start, $end, and $content. If I were trying to target the word “fox” in “the quick brown fox jumps”, i would use, getSingleMatch(“brown...