[SOLVED] Regex for HTML (so close, yet so far!)

[dhcrusoe]

Hey guys,

 

I have a regex that pulls the vote for this html:

 

<div class="vote">number</div>

 

which is:

preg_match('{<div class="vote[^>]*>([^<]+)</div>}', $html, $match);

 

However, now we need to capture this html:

 

</span>
              
              <cite>Mobilize mentors, tutors, and “citizen teachers” to help kids succeed</cite>

 

with a </span> and a line break (and apparent spacing) between the </span> and <cite>. So the regex I was playing with was:

 

preg_match('{</span><cite[^>]*>([^<]+)</cite>}', $html, $match);

 

but it hasn't been working... any thoughts?

 

Thanks!

--Dave

[.josh]

Do you expect only linebreaks and whitespace? As in, no other tags? Just do the same thing as you did with your other pieces. 

preg_match('{</span>[^<]*<cite[^>]*>([^<]+)</cite>}', $html, $match);

[dhcrusoe]

That works, thanks!

 

Do you expect only linebreaks and whitespace? As in, no other tags? Just do the same thing as you did with your other pieces.  

preg_match('{</span>[^<]*<cite[^>]*>([^<]+)</cite>}', $html, $match);