Problem to match a regular expression

Discussion in 'PHP' started by Morphos, Sep 26, 2011.

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  1. #1
    Hi guys,

    I'm already very desperate with a regular expression trying to match a piece of text, please help:

    This is the text:

    <OPTION value="25">Anglicky</OPTION> <OPTION value="19">Auto, moto</OPTION> <OPTION value="39">Stavebníctvo</OPTION> <OPTION value="39">staveb</OPTION> <OPTION value="26">Školstvo</OPTION>


    And I need to select only <OPTION value="39">Stavebníctvo</OPTION> however not literally - its parts change as well. So far I got this:

    (?<=\<OPTION).*?(?i)staveb.*?(?=\</OPTION\>)

    The problem is that it matches also the text before my desired selection. Pleeease help me!!! thank you very much
     
    Morphos, Sep 26, 2011 IP
  2. gvre

    gvre Member

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    try this
    $s = '<OPTION value="25">Anglicky</OPTION> <OPTION value="19">Auto, moto</OPTION> <OPTION value="39">Stavebníctvo</OPTION> <OPTION value="39">staveb</OPTION> <OPTION value="26">Školstvo</OPTION>';
$pattern = '#(<option value="\d+">staveb[^<]+</option>)#si';
if (preg_match($pattern, $s, $m))
{
        print_r($m);
}
    Code (markup):
     
    gvre, Sep 26, 2011 IP