Preg_match_all problem

Hi,
I am having the following function:

function findinside($start, $end, $string) {
        preg_match_all('/' . preg_quote($start, '/') . '([^\.)]+)'. preg_quote($end, '/').'/i', $string, $m);
        return $m[1];
    }

PHP:

In the file i have:

$start = "/product/";
$end = ".html";
$string="http://domaincom/product/product-name.html";

PHP:

When i call

$out = findinside($start, $end, $string);

PHP:

It works with no problem and i get "product-name"

But if $string contains ( or ) it stops working :

$string="http://domaincom/product/product(best)-name.html";

PHP:

Any idea on fixing it?
Thanks

 

This might not help you with figuring out regular expressions, but in this case I don't believe you need to use one.

PHP already has a function to return the file name:

$string = 'http://domaincom/product/product(best)-name.html';
echo basename($string); // product(best)-name.html
echo basename($string, '.html'); // product(best)-name

PHP:

 

Yes but the problem is that i use preg_match_all as i have about 20 links/page that needs detected this way.
So, in my case, $string can contain the source of an entire webpage.

 

function base_match_all($arr)
{
   $all_your_base_are_belong_to_us = array();
   foreach($arr as $string)
   {
      $all_your_base_are_belong_to_us[] = basename($string, '.html');
   }
   return $all_your_base_are_belong_to_us;
}

$arr_string = base_match_all($strings);

Code (markup):

Maybe it is a bit slower, but it works just the same.

Anyhow the preg_match_all problem might be because the ( ) needs to be back slashed and it is thinking (.*?) set type instead of exact string that needs to be found. So, it could be that preg_quote is not working like it should. hrm.. Think of changing ([^\.)]+) to something like (.*?) to match everything between?

 

Thanks exodus, will try to implement it to see what i get.