Deleting HTML tag contents using PHP

Removing a certain tag and its contents

[Kadence]

Say I'm parsing an HTML file, and I want to delete the 2nd table in the file. That is, I want to produce another HTML file that is the same, except the new one does not contain the 2nd table from the original.

How would I go about finding the 2nd <table> tag, and then how would I go about deleting everything between that tag and the next </table> tag?

[Birdman]

There are a few ways to accomplish what you want. This page should give you all the info you need:

PHP: Regular Expression Functions [php.net]

Birdman