Re: What's wrong with my regular expression?

Since I don't know perl,I use ereg instead. but ,thanks. -- Regards, "Marco Tabini" <marcot@tabini.ca> wrote in message news:1034597339.9026.832.camel@localhost.localdomain... > If you want to match more than one occurrence of the same pattern, you > must use preg_match_all with Perl syntax. The matches will be returned > as an array of arrays (that is, an array that contains the result of a > normal ereg call for each match found): > > $line = '<a > href="http://www.yahoo.com">http://www.yahoo.com</a>'; > $line .= 'X<a > href=http:/www.php.net>www.php.net</a>'; > if (preg_match_all("/(<( )*[Aa]( )*[Hh][Rr][Ee][Ff]( )*=( > )*[\"'][^<>\"']*[\"']( )*>[^<>]*<( )*\/( )*a( > )*>)/",$line,$matches)) > { > print ($matches[0][0]); // Returns the first match > print ($matches[1][0]); // Returns the second match > } > > Also, your regular expression didn't cover all the possibility (eg: > spaces between href and =. I might have overdone it with mine but, hey, > I've got a turkey to cook and it's already late ;-) > > Cheers, > > > Marco > > On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 07:40, Ns_Andy wrote: > > $line = '<a > > href="http://www.yahoo.com">http://www.yahoo.com</a>'; > > if (eregi("<a[ ]+(.*[ > > ]+)?href=([\"'])?([^<>\"'])+([\"'])?>[^<>]+<\/a[ > > ]*>",$line,$matches)) { > > print (htmlspecialchars($matches[0])); > > } > > > > it works fine, > > however if > > $line .= 'X<a > > href=http:/www.php.net>www.php.net</a>'; > > is added before eregi, > > it doesn't,what's wrong with my code? > > -- > > Regards, > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > >