title: file get contents preg_match
body: <p>I am trying to find the correct string for preg_match in this situation</p>
  
  <p>this is the data I am trying to scrape </p>
  
  <pre><code>  &lt;td style="background-color:#FFFF66;font-weight:bold;"&gt;08/21/2013&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I just need the    08/21/2013
    If I just print $file_string it prints the whole page fine its just when I try to pull out that date.   I have a feeling it has to do with the quotes or slashes I have tried this and several other combos nogo</p>
  
  <pre><code> preg_match("/bold;\"&gt;(.+)\&lt;\/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;/i", $file_string, $matches);
  $print = "$matches[1]";
   echo $print;
  </code></pre>