Re: Regular expressions

Great! It works! Thank you very much. Also thanks to all the other guys who answered. I also think I finally started to understand these regular expressions a bit better. - Morten ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Lynch" <ceo@l-i-e.com> To: "Morten Twellmann" <morten@twellmann.dk> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 7:42 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Regular expressions > On Sat, October 14, 2006 4:19 pm, Morten Twellmann wrote: > > I'm trying to understand these regular expressions, but I can't make > > them > > work... > > > > All I want to do, is to find the first occurrence of some text inside > > the > > HTML tags <h1> and </h1>. > > > > Example string: "<p>October 14, 2006</p><h1>Welcome to my > > homepage</h1><p>We're happy to announce...</p>" > > > > must return: > > > > "Welcome to my homepage" > > > > > > I tried with: > > > > preg_match('<h1\b[^>]*>(.*?)</h1>', "<h1>Welcome to my > > homepage</h1>", > > $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE); > > print_r($matches); > > > > but got nothing... > > > > Can anyone tell me how to do this? > > > > (I tried the above expression in EditPad Pro 6 and it worked...!) > > Download "The Regex Coach" and play with that -- It's not 100% the > same as PHP, and the escaping of backslashes for PHP isn't in it, but > it rocks for visual presentation of pattern/match > > Your main problem is a lack of start/end delimiters for the pattern: > '|<h1[^>]*>(.*)</h1>|ims' > would probably be better. > | at beginning/end as pattern delimiters > i becase H1 and h1 are both the same tag in HTML > ms because newlines inside the text are okay > Take out the \b because I dunno what it does, but you don't need it. > .*? is kinda silly -- .* mean "0 or more characters", and ? means > "maybe" but putting them together has no added value, so lose the ? > > -- > Some people have a "gift" link here. > Know what I want? > I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. > http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch > Yeah, I get a buck. So? > >