Re: Findng a pattern

Hi Again, sorry it's taken so long. Thankyou for your help. I have since reappraised my thoughts on this subject and would like to thank all of you (and inparticular Rasmus Lerdorf) for your time in replying to my question. I will not be using anthing that was provided in reply to circumvent googles API's. Henry "Rasmus Lerdorf" <rasmus@php.net> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0210042315100.28746-100000@www.lerdorf.com... > You are building something that will automatically scrape Google by > explicitly circumventing the tools they have provided for you to do so. > Whether the information is for your own internal statistics or not is > irrelevant. The terms of service state: > > No Automated Querying > > You may not send automated queries of any sort to Google's system > without express permission in advance from Google. Note that "sending automated > queries" includes, among other things: > > * using any software which sends queries to Google to determine how > a website or webpage "ranks" on Google for various queries; > > * "meta-searching" Google; and > > * performing "offline" searches on Google. > > -Rasmus > > On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Henry wrote: > > > Dear Rasmus et.al. > > > > I am not wishing to reformat or display or mirror anything from google. > > > > This is for my own internal statistics. > > > > I hope that puts your mind at rest. > > > > Henry > > > > "Rasmus Lerdorf" <rasmus@php.net> wrote in message > > > > news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0210042151130.28746-100000@www.lerdorf.com... > > > You realize that you are asking us to help you violate the terms of > > > service of Google? > > > > > > A direct quote from their terms of service: > > > > > > "You may not take the results from a Google search and reformat and > > > display them, or mirror the Google home page or results pages on your > > > Web site." > > > > > > -Rasmus > > > > > > On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Henry wrote: > > > > > > > Thanks, but I don't want to uses google's SOAP interface, is there a > > preg > > > > type solution. > > > > > > > > > > > > "Rasmus Lerdorf" <rasmus@php.net> wrote in message > > > > > > > > news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0210042145330.28746-100000@www.lerdorf.com... > > > > > Google has a SOAP interface for this. > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Henry wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Dear All, > > > > > > > > > > > > Excuse my ignorance but I'm STILL a newbie to this aspect of PHP. > > > > > > > > > > > > $str="Results <b>1</b> - <b>10</b> of > > > > > > about <b>14</b>. Search took > > > > > > <b>0.04</b> seconds." > > > > > > > > > > > > I would like to look for the string above in a buffer of text. > > However I > > > > > > would like to find it even if the numeric are different. Furthermore > > I > > > > would > > > > > > like to know what the values are. Is there a simple way to do this? > > > > > > > > > > > > TIA > > > > > > > > > > > > Henry > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > > > > > To unsubscribe, visit: > > > > > > http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > > > To unsubscribe, visit: > > > > http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > >