End preg_match with '>

[FULLAHiMHARD]

Hi All,

I am running a preg_match on this

valign='top'>Website: </td><td class='attribute-value'><a href='http://www.website.com'>name of website</a></td></tr><tr class='attribute'><td class='attribute-label'

I want to capture the website address. The code I am using is:

preg_match('|Website: </td><td class=\'attribute-value\'><a href=\'mailto:(.*)\'>|im', $result1, $match2); 

The regex starts fine, it begins at the beginning of the website, but it does not stop at '> and continues on far down the website.

Any idea how to stop a regex at '>?

[bradgrafelman]

Try changing the B[/B] to B[/B]; otherwise, you could add a '?' after the * to make it non-greedy.

[nrg_alpha]

Granted, ([^>]+) will also match the closing quotation mark prior to >

@OP: You are using mailto: in the pattern, yet in the snippet that you are applying preg to doesn't contain that text, so that pattern should fail every time.

Perhaps something like this?

preg_match('#<td class=[\'"]attribute-value[\'"]><a href=[\'"]([^\'"]+)[\'"][^>]*>#i', $result1, $match2);

I used [\'"] in case the code you're scrapping uses single or double quotes.