(.*?).*?.*?(.*?) |is'; //search the string for the pattern, and store the content found inside the set of parens in the array $matches //$matches[1] is going to hold team names in the order they appear on the page, and $matches[2] the scores preg_match_all($find, $string, $matches); //initiate scores array, to group teams and scores together in games $scores = array(); //count number of teams found, to be used in the loop below $count = count($matches[1]); //loop from 0 to $count, in steps of 2 //this is done in order to group 2 teams and 2 scores together in games, with each iteration of the loop //trim() is used to trim away any whitespace surrounding the team names and scores //strip_tags() is used to remove the HTML bold tag () from the winning scores for ($i = 0; $i < $count; $i += 2) { $away_team = trim($matches[1][$i]); $away_score = trim($matches[2][$i]); $home_team = trim($matches[1][$i + 1]); $home_score = trim($matches[2][$i + 1]); $winner = (strpos($away_score, '<') === false) ? $home_team : $away_team; $scores[] = array( 'awayteam' => $away_team, 'awayscore' => strip_tags($away_score), 'hometeam' => $home_team, 'homescore' => strip_tags($home_score), 'winner' => $winner ); } echo "
"; echo "Scores from week: $Current_Week"; echo "
"; echo "
"; //see how the scores array looks echo '
' . print_r($scores, true) . '
'; //game results and winning teams can now be accessed from the scores array //e.g. $scores[0]['awayteam'] contains the name of the away team (['awayteam'] part) from the first game on the page ([0] part) ?>