Regex Issues

[discussnow]

Hello, I'm currently working on using regex to scrape a few lines of code and display it:

 

$scrape = file_get_the_contents($url) ; 
$regex = '/<td class="info">    <a href="(.+?)" title=/';
preg_match($regex,$scrape,$results);
var_dump($results);
echo $results;

 

and this is the result I get : array(2) { [0]=>  string(61) "

[gevans]

echo $scrape before running preg_match

[.josh]

Hello, I'm currently working on using regex to scrape a few lines of code and display it:

 

$scrape = file_get_the_contents($url) ; 
$regex = '/<td class="info">    <a href="(.+?)" title=/';
preg_match($regex,$scrape,$results);
var_dump($results);
echo $results;

 

and this is the result I get : array(2) { [0]=>  string(61) "

 

 

so...what's the problem?

[nrg_alpha]

a) How are we to know which URL you are scraping? (file_get_the_contents($url) doesn't tell us what the source code is)

b) In your pattern '/<td class="info">    <a href="(.+?)" title=/', I hope you realise that those spaces between the td tag and the a tag are actually needed to be matched (if you do not desire those spaces, remove them from the pattern).

c) an answer like 'and this is the result I get : array(2) { =>  string(61) " ' doesn't tell us squat.

 

My advice would be to provide a sample of the URL code you are trying to scrape, as your post tells us nothing (other than the involement of a td tag and an a tag (with some spaces in between for some odd reason).