Re: Re: grabbing information from websites

so does this look right: eregi ("username=champinoman&category=13.*align=\"right\">(.*)</td>"m,$line,$out)) is that where i am ment to put the 'm' modifier? or am i still off on the wrong track? "Graham Cossey" <graham@cossey.plus.com> wrote in message news:JGEHJJEPPLDNAPAHKDGGKEEHCIAA.graham@cossey.plus.com... > From > http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/regular_expressions.html: > > "Sometimes you have a programming problem and it seems like the best > solution is to use regular expressions; now you have two problems." > > To me regular expressions are some kind of black art, I've been > programming > for 20 years and until recently have pretty much managed to avoid them. > The > above URL is a pretty good tutorial. > > HTH > > Graham > > -----Original Message----- > From: champinoman [mailto:champinoman@hotmail.com] > Sent: 28 September 2004 09:35 > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Re: grabbing information from websites > > > >> instead of the POSIX regexp, tr using PERL style RegExps >> (www.php.net/pcre) Once you've done that, you can add the pattern >> modifier >> 'm' to allow multilines . > > i think im lost now. i had a look at the site but im not sure what im > looking at. any chance u could make a mock script up so i can see what > your > explaining? > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php