i can match this pattern
/<a href="\/How_I_Met_Your_Mother\/season-1\/episode-1\/search\?page=\d+".+\d+<\/a>/i
but my priblem is that this pattern selects line by line into an array
what i need it to do is that it selects every match in 1 single line and puts it in a array with different index.
$html=<div class="pagination"><span class="disabled prev_page">« Previous</span> <span class="current">1</span> <a href="/How_I_Met_Your_Mother/season-1/episode-1/search?page=2" rel="next">2</a> <a href="/How_I_Met_Your_Mother/season-1/episode-1/search?page=3">3</a> <a href="/How_I_Met_Your_Mother/season-1/episode-1/search?page=4">4</a> <a href="/How_I_Met_Your_Mother/season-1/episode-1/search?page=2" class="next_page" rel="next">Next »</a></div>
//*this is all in one line not multiple lines*
//if this was in multiple lines i wouldn't have this problem
preg_match_all('/<a href="\/How_I_Met_Your_Mother\/season-1\/episode-1\/search\?page=.*/', $html, $pages);
preg_match_all('#<a.+href="/How_I_Met_Your_Mother/season-\d+/episode-\d+/search\?page=\d+.+?">[^<]+</a>#', $html, $pages);
for ($i=0;$i<sizeof($pages[0]);$i++)
{
echo $pages[0][$i];
echo $pages[0][0];
echo $pages[0][1]; //////////////////////////////////////////this would give undefined index
}
any suggestions would be appreciated.