Regex Help

[Mazarin]

Heres my situation, I'm trying to scan through one big array that is the HTML contents from a website. I'm trying to match up various lines with a regex and have those variables go into an array. I'm not sure whether I should use ereg or preg, but at present I'm trying to use the latter, because ereg timed out.

preg_match('JobSearch_JobId=(.*?)&JobSearchType=JobSearch" id="bodylink10"><b>(.*?)<\/b><\/a>', $result, $matches);

That is the piece of code I'm using, but I get "Warning: Delimiter must not be alphanumeric or backslash in /home/wwwapply/public_html/test/locations/nevada/test.php on line 21" when trying to run it.

Also, I'm not sure if (.*?) should be what I try to use whenever I want to pull ANYTHING between those two points.

At any rate, I need some help.

Thanks in advance

[rheroux]

You need some sort of delimiter that is not a number or an alphabetic character.

I like using # myself, since / becomes too "toothpicky" when you're escaping stuff within your regex.

Secondly, using (.*?) will work fine. By sticking ? in there you make the match ungreedy, which is probably what you want.

So, simply change it to this:

preg_match('#JobSearch_JobId=(.*?)&JobSearchType=JobSearch" id="bodylink10"><b>(.*?)<\/b><\/a>#', $result, $matches);

[Mazarin]

Thanks, that worked fine. But, it only matches the first instance of that line coming up in the file. And right now there are 3. Any way I can catch the other 2?

EDIT: Nevermind. I need to read the docs more closely.