[SOLVED] (simple regex)- how to tell it not to fetch something

[Anti-Moronic]

Here's my regex:

 

preg_match("#\">(.*?)</a>#", $match[0][0], $name);

 

But it is bringing through "> - yet not </a>. Anybody know why, and is there a simple way to tell it to not bring this through?

 

Thanks.

[.josh]

post example content of what you're trying to match and what you want the resulting match to be.

 

 

[Anti-Moronic]

No probs...

 

This is the string to obtain the match from:

 

">hello, I am a string</a>

 

with the current pattern, I am receiving:

 

">hello, I am a string

 

Yet I want to receive:

 

hello, I am a string

 

Thanks.

 

[Anti-Moronic]

I sussed it out finally. Maybe not the best way, but the only way I could find.

 

I simply tagged the group:

 

#\">(?<tag>(.*?))</a>#

 

then, to retrieve, used:

 

$name['tag'];

 

Didn't even know php allowed tagging. Very happy

 

[.josh]

hmm...perhaps you were just looking at the wrong $name array element to begin with?  $name[0] is the full match array, $name[1] is the first captured match array.  So for instance, $name[1][0] would be the first captured match.

[Anti-Moronic]

Ahh..very possible. I was using [0][0] and [0][1] etc. Anyway, the tagging fixed it for me, and I find it far simpler.