Broken Preg_match

[fullahimhard]

Hiyas,

 

I am trying to pregmatch the telephone number

 

the html code is:

<tr class='attribute'><td class='attribute-label' valign='top'>Telephone: </td><td class='attribute-value'>9556856</td></tr>

 

My preg_match uses:

preg_match('|valign=\'top\'>Telephone: </td><td class=\'attribute-value\'>(.*?)</td></tr>|im', $result1, $match3); 

 

But it isnt picking anything up. Any ideas why?

 

Cheers

[Maq]

Picks it up for me.  How are you displaying the matches?

 

print_r($match3);

 

Also, if you put your pattern in double quotes you won't need to escape all the inner single quotes.

[nrg_alpha]

My first choice would probably be DOM / XPath (there's always other ways to skin a cat), but if going the regex route, one method could be:

 

Example:

$str = "<tr class='attribute'><td class='attribute-label' valign='top'>Telephone: </td><td class='attribute-value'>9556856</td></tr>";

preg_match('#Telephone: </td><td[^>]+class=[\'"]attribute-value[\'"]>(\d+)</td>#i', $str, $match);
echo $match[1]; // Output: 9556856

 

Granted, the (\d+) assumes that there are only consecutive digits for the value of that td tag. If you want to just match anything to make sure, that part of the pattern could be replaced with ([^<]+) instead