[Resolved] preg_match_all

eli03

greetings,

I was trying to parse this data,
but my regular expression knowledge is not enough. Could some please help to parse this: I can get the value inside the <a></a> tag, what I want is get the value inside the <a></a> if the first tag start with <p> follow by $nbsp; . Also i want to get the data inside the ( ) tag which is the word "Free Hosting"

i have here:

$var="<p>&nbsp;<a href=doamin.com>Webhost</a>  (Free Hosting)";
preg_match("/<a[^>]*>(.*)<\/a>/", $var, $match);
$match1= $match[1];
// output: Webhost

Thanks,
eli

mtmosier

$var="<p>&nbsp;<a href=doamin.com>Webhost</a>  (Free Hosting)";
preg_match("/<p>&nbsp;<a[^>]*>(.*?)<\\\/a>.*?\\\((.*?)\\\)/", $var, $match);
$match1= $match[1];
$match2= $match[2];
echo $match1."\n";
echo $match2."\n";

This matches the text only if it begins with "<p>&nbsp;<a" and requires the () section at the end as well. It can be modified to be more lenient of course.

eli03

thanks mtmosier, looks good. =)