Re: Re: grabbing information from websites

ugh, obviously I'm a bad typer :) The code should be: preg_match('#username=champinoman&category=13.*align="right">(.*)</td>#mi', $text, $out); Or using any other patterndelimiter... ;) M. Sokolewicz wrote:

I thought I clearly stated that for the m modifier you need to use PCRE functions! eg: preg_match('/username=champinoman&category=13.*align="right">(.*)</td>/mi', $text, $out); Champinoman wrote:

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