Doh! REGEX!!

Anon

This is extremely confusing for me. I'm trying to go into files in directories (and sub-directories) and grab the contents between <textarea cols=80 rows=53 wrap=VIRTUAL> and </textarea>

My regex is...

$body = preg_match("/<textarea cols=80 rows=53 wrap=VIRTUAL>(.*)<\/textarea>/sm", $filedata);

And I'm grabbing $body[1] - giving me nothing. No idea what's going on here.

reagent

what is $body[1]?
dont you mean $filedata[1]?

Anon

Read here:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php

Specifically the proto:

int preg_match (string pattern, string subject [, array matches])

So, what you want is:

preg_match("/<textarea cols=80 rows=53 wrap=VIRTUAL>(.*?)<\/textarea>/sm", $filedata, $body);

Then $body[1] should contain what you want. Actually, one more change is a question mark after the , makes the non-greedy. Hope that helps.

Chris King