[RESOLVED] Help: Extracting data from a multidimensional array

[monkover]

Hey all,

I wrote a crawler and have already written the string to extract links. i get a multidimensional array.
this is #13 for example

Array[0][13] => <a class="menuitem" href="/home-news.html" title="Home / News">Home / News</a>
Array[1][13] => /home-news.html

ok so far so good. Now I want to extract the name Home / News and write that into a database and the link as well. can i use the preg_match_all() to search an array? or how can i extract it?

Thanks so much! monkover

[dagon]

you could probably do a better job modifying the original preg_match, rather than running extra code on its output.

[monkover]

Yeah, ok thanks, that sounds very reasonable. I'll just do two seperate preg_match_all() funktions...
another question though, do you know why I get a multidimensional array which lists the entire <a href...>...</a>in the first array and then just the links in the second one?
this is my funktion:

preg_match_all("/<a(?:[^{>])href=\"([\"])\"(?:[>])>(?:[<])<\/a>/is",} $stripped_file, $matches1);

because im really just searching for the entire string. dunno why i get the naked link as well...

Thanks monkover

[monkover]

how would you go about extracting that part though?
because if your string looks like this:

"/>(.*)<\/a>/" --> id get the >, </a> as well.

if i strip all tags though, i dont have a string to look for...

[monkover]

ok i found the solution... never mind

[dagon]

great, please use "thread tools" above to make as resolved.