Re: RegEx

At 02:05 26.05.2003, Brian V Bonini said: --------------------[snip]-------------------- >Trying to pull data from a remote location and extract a certain section >(and yes I have permission). Can not seem to get this to work: > >$siteurl = "http://domain.com"; >$string = file($siteurl); >$matches = array(); >preg_match_all('|\<\!--***** BEGIN HOME PAGE CONTENT ***** >--\>(.*?)\<\!--***** END HOME PAGE CONTENT ***** --\>|is',$string, >$matches); >//see what we have >echo '<pre>'; >print_r($matches); >echo '</pre>'; --------------------[snip]-------------------- 2 problems with your code: 1) file() returns an array, not a single string. Use $string = join('', file($siteurl)); 2) asterisks are special characters within a regular expression, you need to escape them. Try this regex: $re = '|<!--\*{5,5} BEGIN HOME PAGE CONTENT \*{5,5} -->' . '(.*?)' . '<!--\*{5,5} END HOME PAGE CONTENT \*{5,5} -->|is'; You don't need to escape the other characters. (Tested and worked). -- >O Ernest E. Vogelsinger (\) ICQ #13394035 ^ http://www.vogelsinger.at/