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  • mich dobelman
    #1

    Regular Expression Problem

    I am trying to extract hello world out of the following html string if
    the "message" string is found in the same row.

    I am not sure why it's not working.

    <?php
    $string = '<html>
    <body>
    <table>
    <tr>
    <td class="bg-grey-m">
    <table cellpadding="12 ">
    <tr><td>message </td><td><i>hello world</i></td></tr>
    <tr><td>tel</td><td><i>111-111-555</i></td></tr>
    </table>
    </td>
    </tr>
    </table>
    </body>';

    preg_match_all( "/<td
    [^>]*class=\"bg-grey-m\">[^<]+<table[^>]*>.*message.*<i >(.*)<\/i>.*<\/table>.*/iU",
    $string, $matches);

    foreach($matche s[1] as $link)
    {
    echo "<li>$link</li>\n";
    }


    ?>


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    • BinnyVA
      #2
      Re: Regular Expression Problem

      Hi,
      I am trying to extract hello world out of the following html string if
      the "message" string is found in the same row.
      preg_match_all( "/<td
      [^>]*class=\"bg-grey-m\">[^<]+<table[^>]*>.*message.*<i >(.*)<\/i>.*<\/table>.*/iU",
      $string, $matches);
      Try...

      preg_match_all( '/<tr><td>message <\/td><td><i>(.+?) <\/i><\/td><\/tr>/',$string,
      $matches);

      Hope this is what you are looking for.

      --
      Binny V A
      http://www.bin-co.com/ - All about Scripting Languages in Web
      Development

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        • mich dobelman
          #3
          Re: Regular Expression Problem

          Thank you for your reply.

          I wanted to carry bg-grey-m class just in case similar table happened to be
          found.
          However, after all, putting /s switch solved all the problem.
          I haven't figured out what /s is for.

          preg_match_all( "/<td
          [^>]*class=\"bg-grey-m\">[^<]+<table([^>]*)>.*<td[^>]*>message<\/td><td[^>]*><i>(.*)<\/i><\/td>.*<\/table>/siU",
          $string, $matches);

          foreach($matche s[2] as $link)
          {
          echo "<li>$link</li>\n";
          }



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            • Rik
              #4
              Re: Regular Expression Problem

              mich dobelman wrote:
              Thank you for your reply.
              >
              I wanted to carry bg-grey-m class just in case similar table happened to be
              found.
              However, after all, putting /s switch solved all the problem.
              I haven't figured out what /s is for.
              With /s the dot (.) matches newline characters. I assume there were
              line-breaks in the HTML :-).

              Grtz,
              --
              Rik Wasmus

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