preg_match_all

[tablex]

I'm trying to find the number of hyperlinks in a document, I tried 'preg_match_all' below, but no matter what's in the file the regex returns 2, even if there's no hyperlink in the document, I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong???

<?php
$getit = file_get_contents("http://www.site.com/bla.php");
if(is_bool($getit))
{
echo"cannot get content...";
exit;
}
preg_match_all('/<a(.*)>/', $getit, $hlink);
$temped = count($hlink);
echo $temped . " is total hyperlinks";
?>

[swon]

Try this one:

<?php
$file = "file3.html";

$html= fopen($file,"r");
$content = fread($html,filesize($file));

preg_match_all ("/<a(.)>(.<\/a>)/", $content, $matches);
for ($i=0; $i< count($matches[0]); $i++) {
echo "matched: ".$matches[0][$i]."\n<br>";
}
?>

[Weedpacket]

I have given a more robust regexp here; note too that preg_match_all returns the number of full matches it finds, so you should be able to say simply $tempted=preg_match_all(...);