Preg_Match negating a string

Hi,

How would you negate a string in preg_match

Say I want it to find everything in a string EXCEPT that containing "</" in it.

I tried /([^(<\/)]*/ and /([^<\/]*/ but its not working.

I understand [^<]* would parse anything not including "<" , but how can I do the same thing for 2 characters, being "</" in my case?

Thanks in advance,
Armin

 

<?php

$str = <<<eof
test </tag>
eof;

preg_match('~([^</]*)~', $str, $arr);

print_r($arr);

?>

PHP:

 

Thanks for your answer but this is not what I want. This will match ignore things that have a "<" OR "/" in the string, but I ONLY want it to ignore strings with "</" in them. So the sequence "</" CANNOT appear, but < and / individually can.

Any clues?

 

Can you post you an example, input and expected output.

 

querying all links from a certain domain:

say the domain is "domain.com"

and there is a link like

<a href="http://www.domain.com" target="_blank" title=""><img src="http://www.domain.com/images/domaiimage.jpg" alt="" /></a>

on the page.. I want all anchors returns including that domain.com in the href. All links basically with "domain.com" in the href.

 

you can use

/href="(.*?)"/

Code (markup):

to get link in the href

 

What exactly does the "?" do here? I understand .* means anything but carriage return, but whats the ? for?

Armin

 

w ww.regular-expressions.info/php.html

 

This would be more precise, in whats the OP is looking for:

http://www.regular-expressions.info/reference.html

 

Figured it out.

Now .. to the next problem

I now need to do the opposite. I need to grab urls that are NOT of a certain domain...

how can I negate a sequence of characters

if I did something like [^domain.com] , it wouldnt work since it negates each character individually no?