lowyat regex solution

<?php

$test = "<table border=0 width=100% cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2>
     <tr>
        <td class='xxx'>row 1</td>
        <td class='xxx'>row 2</td>
        <td class='xxx'>row 3</td>
     </tr>
    <td align='left' class='tblBursaSOddRow'>[bad html removed]<span class='tblDown'>value A--><span class='tblDown'>value A</span></td>
    <td align='left' class='tblBursaSOddRow'>[bad html removed]<span class='tblDown'>value B--><span class='tblDown'>value B</span></td>
    <td align='left' class='tblBursaSOddRow'>[bad html removed]<span class='tblDown'>value C--><span class='tblDown'>value C</span></td>
    </tr>
</table>";

if(preg_match_all("/\<span class='tblDown'\>(.*?)--\>/",$test,$match))
{
// var_dump($match); For debugging
// print_r($match[1]); // Don't use $match[0], use $match[1] instead
echo $match[1][2]; // Sample
}

?>