preg_match help

Hi
I have read some tutorials for preg_match but I cannot write patterns.
Could someone help me?
In the code below I need to read 80 in level="80"
The bigger difficulty is that I have to make sure level="number" is within the <character > tag and make sure charUrl="r=Garona&amp;cn=Bob" exists in the same <character > tag

$data='<character battleGroup="Rampage" charUrl="r=Garona&amp;cn=Bob" class="Hunter" 
classId="3" level="80" name="Bob" >';

PHP:

Thanks for your help

 

Try

<?php
$data='<character battleGroup="Rampage" charUrl="r=Garona&amp;cn=Bob" class="Hunter"
classId="3" level="80" name="Bob" >';

if(preg_match('/<character.{1,30} charUrl="r=Garona&amp;cn=Bob".{1,50}level="(\d+)"/s', $data, $match))
{
	print $match[1];
}
?>

PHP:

 

That worked thanks
But I'll have to write similar code later. So please help me understand this code.
I ask:
1. You start the pattern with /<character => this means "<character" is required
2. ".{1,30}" means combining with a string that can be 1-30 characters long
3. ".{1,50}" the same as 2
4. what is "(\d+)"?
5. What is "/s"?
Thanks in advance

 

\d+ - 1+ digits
/s - allows use of . to match a newline character