Re: fopen and preg_match

On Tuesday 18 November 2003 00:03, Chris Hayes wrote: > At 15:07 17-11-03, you wrote: > >I have a code that should fetch the information from another webpage. The > >code find's the page, but I can't make it stop on </table> sign. > > > >preg_match("|<tr class=\"listRow2\"><td > >class=\"listRow2\"><span > >class=\"listIndex\">1.+\<\/table\>|is", $buffer, $regs ); > > It probably looks for the last table tag. Is that so? Then you need to tell > the script in a modifier that it should not be greedy (not my terminology, > but the regexp term for this). The modifiers are the letters after the > patern itself, in your example the i (do not make a difference between > capital and small letters) and s ( I think: ignore line breaks). Try adding > a U for making it non greedy. If that does not help check the docs on 'non > greedy'. Also, characters are being escaped unecessarily. The "table" fragment should probably be simply: </table> ie no need to escape the forward slash (/) and the greater-than sign (>). -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ /* America!! I saw it all!! Vomiting! Waving! JERRY FALWELLING into your void tube of UHF oblivion!! SAFEWAY of the mind ... */