RE: [PHP] Regular Expressions...
| From: | Tony Arnold | Date: | Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:21:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Regular Expressions... | ||
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Thank you!
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Wong [mailto:php-general@gremlins.com.hk]
Sent: den 18 januari 2002 15:14
To: Tony Arnold; php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP] Regular Expressions...
On Friday 18 January 2002 22:09, Tony Arnold wrote:
> Howdy people... I want to extract the name of a hyperlink which looks
> like
> this:
>
> <a href="">this is the name!</a>
>
> I tried to do this:
>
> ereg(">([a-zA-Z0-9_. -]*)<",$hlink, $reg3);
>
> and it works if it only consists of the above characters, how can I
> tell ereg to include all characters? not only "a-zA-Z0-9_. -".
>
> / Tony...
Use .* as in:
ereg(">(.*)<",$hlink, $reg3);
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