preg_match_all error

		$title = ':(.*)./msU';
		preg_match_all($title, $value, $matche);

PHP:

this gives me:
Warning: preg_match_all() [function.preg-match-all]: No ending delimiter ':' found in C:\wamp\www\zzz\test.php on line 34
:


My Input:

<li><a name="ChenFL02" href="../../indices/a-tree/c/Chen:Ping.html">Ping Chen</a>, <a href="../../indices/a-tree/f/Fu:Zhaohui.html">Zhaohui Fu</a>, <a href="../../indices/a-tree/l/Lim:Andrew.html">Andrew Lim</a>:
The Yard Allocation Problem.
3-8 <font size="-3"><a href="http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bibtex/conf/aaai/ChenFL02">BibTeX</a></font>

Code (markup):

 

what are you trying to match?

 

"Andrew", I guess?

Try this instead:

"~:([^\.]+)~"

PHP:

$matche[1] should hold the result then.

 

When using preg_match/_all you need to have the exact start/end character:

Examples: /$PATTNER/ |$PATTERN| etc..

Since you used ":" as the beginning character, it was expecting an ending character to be the same, thus the error "delimiter ':' not found'.

If you only need to extract the name, then you will use this:

preg_match_all('/:([.+])\.html/Us',$content,$results);

PHP:

$results[0] will contain the actual text it was found in, and $results[1] will contain the array of matches.

Peace,

 

I am trying to match between

: and .

you see:
</a>:
The Yard Allocation Problem.

I wanted to fetch:
"The Yard Allocation Problem"

 

Please see:
<a name="Walsh07" href="../../indices/a-tree/w/Walsh:Toby.html">Toby Walsh</a>:
Uncertainty in Preference Elicitation and Aggregation.
3-8 <font size="-3">

I want to fetch 3-8 using "preg_match_all" any help, this is not constant, this a variable so can be changed but will be a number with "-" sign.

 

'~\s+(\d+-\d+) <font~'

PHP:

 

thank you, so d will be used or int values, what we can use for strings?, so that "Uncertainty in Preference Elicitation and Aggregation" can be fetched.

thank you

 

Strings are more complicated. The pattern depends totally on the string.

 

is there any tutorial where i can see this? Because i am very new to this.

 

Here's a nice video tutorial.

http://www.phpvideotutorials.com/regex/

And these might be useful as well.
http://www.regular-expressions.info/
http://www.php.net/reference.pcre.pattern.syntax
http://weblogtoolscollection.com/regex/regex.php
http://regexlib.com/