Re: preg_match_all

On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 14:20 -0400, Robert Cummings wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 13:07 -0500, Chris W wrote: > > What I want to do is find all links in an html file. I have the pattern > > below. It works as long as there is only one link on a line and as long > > as the whole link is one line. It seems there should be a way to get > > this to work with more than one link on a single line. The work around > > I have done for now is to read the whole file into a buffer and remove > > all new lines and then add a new line after every closing a tag. Then > > process each line. There has to be a better way. > > > > Any Ideas? Also note I don't want to find any a tags that don't have an > > href.... there probably aren't any but just in case. > > > > > > preg_match_all("/(< *a[^>]*href[^>]+>)(.*)<\/a>/", $Line, > > $matches, > > PREG_PATTERN_ORDER); > > Your preg isn't going to return the URLs (even if it works), it's going > to return the labels of the links. But anyways... Actually it returned both, just not how I had thought first. I forgot to delete the above after I realized. My solution below works nonetheless :) > <?php > > $content = implode( '', @file( > 'http://www.php.net' ) ); > > if( preg_match_all( > '#(<a[^>]+href[^>]+>)(.*)</a>#Umis', $content, $bits ) ) > { > print_r( $bits ); > } > > ?> > > Cheers, > Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP