Regular Expressions Again!!!!

Right.

Im trying to use preg_match_all() to get some strings:

the source file is here:

http://www.ps3peak.com/src.txt

Code (markup):

and the code im using to get this is:

$source= file_get_contents("src.txt");

preg_match_all("/<span class=\"postbody\">(.*)<\/span>/mi", $cource, $posts);
print_r($posts[1]);

PHP:

but i only get 3 results when i should get 4

Ive used the "m" modifier as the source is multiline.... any clues?

 

Try adding the "U" flag to the im modifiers - it makes the expression ungreedy so that it will match the smallest chunk of text that it can rather than the largest, which is the default. It could be matching one from one <span> to the second </span> rather than the first which is what you want

cheers

johnt

 

tried that.... no joy

its cos of the new lines as if i edit it to all be on one line it works....

 

Try:

preg_match_all("/<span class=\"postbody\">(.*)<\/span>/simU", $source, $posts);

Code (markup):

Should work with your newlines.

 

another option is to lose the newlines altogether (if you don't need them) before doing the preg_match_all

$source = str_replace ("\n", ' ', $source);
$source = str_replace ("\r", ' ', $source);

PHP:

 

yeah did that in the end

Bloody hosting copany deleted my forum so i had to rebuild it from the google cache!!

 

>> Bloody hosting copany deleted my forum so i had to rebuild it from the google cache!!

Hope you have a new hosting company now