[RESOLVED] [help] Regular expressions match, but array empty

[msimonds]

I am having an issue with a regular expression and cannot figure out what is wrong. I have taken each line of html and the corresponding regular expression and placed it in

RegexCoach and RegexBuilder, checking each line by line and they all match. But I cannot get the array $matches to show any data when I test it

preg_match("/AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDINGS.*?AL Central/is", $contents, $results);

preg_match_all("/<td[^>]*?><a href=\"\/baseball\/mlb\/team\/\w+\/team.aspx\">(.+?)<\/a><\/td>
    <td[^>]*?>(\d+)<\/td>
    <td[^>]*?>(\d+)<\/td>
    <td[^>]*?>(\.\d+)<\/td>
    <td[^>]*?>(.+?)<\/td>
    <td[^>]*?>(\d+-\d+)<\/td>
    <td[^>]*?>(\d+-\d+)<\/td>
    <td[^>]*?>(\d+-\d+)<\/td>
    <td[^>]*?>(\d+-\d+)<\/td>
    <td[^>]*?>(\d+-\d+)<\/td>
    <td[^>]*?>(.+?\s\d+)<\/td>
    <td[^>]*?>(\d+-\d+)<\/td>/is", $results[0], $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);


print_r ($matches);

exit;

here is the html:

<td id="ContentRepeater__ctl0__ctl2_DlStandings__ctl0_tdTeamName"><a href="/baseball/mlb/team/bos/team.aspx">Boston</a></td>
	<td id="ContentRepeater__ctl0__ctl2_DlStandings__ctl0_tdW" align="right">5</td>
	<td id="ContentRepeater__ctl0__ctl2_DlStandings__ctl0_tdL" align="right">1</td>
	<td id="ContentRepeater__ctl0__ctl2_DlStandings__ctl0_tdPct" align="right">.833</td>
	<td id="ContentRepeater__ctl0__ctl2_DlStandings__ctl0_tdGB" align="right">--</td>
	<td id="ContentRepeater__ctl0__ctl2_DlStandings__ctl0_tdHome" align="right">0-0</td>
	<td id="ContentRepeater__ctl0__ctl2_DlStandings__ctl0_tdRoad" align="right">5-1</td>
	<td id="ContentRepeater__ctl0__ctl2_DlStandings__ctl0_tdEast" align="right">3-0</td>
	<td id="ContentRepeater__ctl0__ctl2_DlStandings__ctl0_tdCent" align="right">0-0</td>
	<td id="ContentRepeater__ctl0__ctl2_DlStandings__ctl0_tdWest" align="right">2-1</td>
	<td id="ContentRepeater__ctl0__ctl2_DlStandings__ctl0_tdStreak" align="right">Won 4</td>
	<td id="ContentRepeater__ctl0__ctl2_DlStandings__ctl0_tdLTen" align="right">5-1</td>

I checked, double checked, and triple checked each line in these programs, and the data that is in $results and it shows data....

Can someone please help me!!!!

TIA

Mike

[xblue]

May the line breaks be the problem? In this case I'd would try \s+, as there is whitespace at the beginning of each line that would be covered by this as well as different flavours of line break characters.

[msimonds]

thanks and not trying to sound so stupid, but where in the expression would I place that \s+

[msimonds]

thanks after messing around, I got it