preg_match_all Fetching Multiple Lines, possible ??

[celebx]

preg_match_all('|Auteur:&nbsp;(.*)&nbsp;(.*)<br />
Datum:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(.*)<br />
(.*)</font><p>|Ui',$source,$out);
	print_r($out);

Hi!

I am looking for a way to fetch multiple lines of text ($out[2]) but the code shown above doesn't seem to work...

Anyone knows how to do it ?

Best Regards,
Celeb-X

[sneakyimp]

preg_match_all will fill the third argument with the match results.

for instance, this command will return all the span tags in an html document and put them into the array $match_results. $match_results will be a two-dimensional array with the first dimension corresponding to the () groupings in your pattern and the second dimension corresponding to which search it corresponds to.

$num_matches = preg_match_all("#(<span)([^>]*)(>)#is", $string_to_search, $match_results);

echo $num_matches . " MATCHES FOUND<br>\n";

echo "<hr>COMPLETE MATCHES<br>";
foreach($match_results[0] as $key=>$match0) {
  echo htmlspecialchars($match0) . "<br>";  

}

// all span tags--boring
echo "<hr>MATCHES corresponding to \\1<br>";
foreach($match_results[1] as $key=>$match1) {
  echo htmlspecialchars($match1) . "<br>";  

}

// attributes--interesting??
echo "<hr>MATCHES corresponding to \\2<br>";
foreach($match_results[2] as $key=>$match2) {
  echo htmlspecialchars($match2) . "<br>";  

}

NOTE: i have not debugged this code. it may or may not work.

for more information, check here:

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match-all.php

[celebx]

Hi!

Thanks for your reply!

I actualy was looking for a way to match multiple lines of text.

Best Regards,
Celeb-X

[sneakyimp]

i believe the s flag at the end of my pattern will enable multi-line pattern matching capabilities. for more information, you might go to php.net and look up pattern syntax.

[Weedpacket]

As a matter of fact, the /s modifier won't make a difference to sneakyimp's expression, because it only affects the . operator, which that expression doesn't use. It would make a difference in the original expression, however.