Need a preg_match pro here ...

[suit4]

hi,
i trie to read a meta-tag content ot of a html file,
but the preg_match i use does work.

this is what i fand to match:

<meta-name="searchresult" content="Boring text here">

i only want to get the 'Boring text here' whitout the quotes.

the code i use is:

 if (preg_match("'<meta-name=\"searchresult\" content=\"(.*)(\"\>)$'is", $targetText, $content)) {
                    $pageTitle = $content[1];
                } 

but it returns 'Boring text here">...and all the rest of the html code.

any ideas?

thanks.

[diego25]

Try taking out the dollar sign at the end.

Diego

[suit4]

sorry, but the result is the same.

it looks like the preg_match does not stop at the end-'>' of the meta tag....

[128kb_com]

Try taking out the s modifier.

When the s modifier is set the . (dot) metacharcter will match any character INCLUDING a newline. With it set, your whole HTML file could be considered (.*)

[suit4]

I knew, it was just a 'little adjustement'.

Cool, now it works!

Thanks a lot. Regexpressions are somekind of blackmagic for me ..