[SOLVED] preg_match

[supermerc]

hey,

 

Im using curl to go to a page and i want to get the hash for items, links look like this:

 

/trade.php?tradeWith=7210&addItem=6919211&addHash=894882156e40dd8eedf3bb5b94c9d5f9

 

What i have right now is:

 

$data = $result2;

preg_match('~/trade.php?tradeWith=7210&addItem=6919211&addHash=([^"\']*)"~i',$data,$matches);

 

but its returning empty.. anyone know why?

[Mchl]

? is regex special character. You need to escape it.

[thebadbad]

And the dot. Would probably not make a difference in your case, but when matching a dot, escape it. It would also make more sense to remove the last double quote in the pattern, since your previous match stops when a double or single quote appears.

[supermerc]

I know nothing about regex someone made that for me to get something else and I just changed it for this but i guess it didnt match..

 

So i dont understand what you both are saying :S

[thebadbad]

Assuming the hash is a hexadecimal number:

 

preg_match('~/trade\.php\?tradeWith=7210&addItem=6919211&addHash=([0-9a-f]*)~i', $data, $matches);

Note that I escaped the dot and the question mark with a backslash, to suppress their special regex meaning.

[supermerc]

it still returns as no match

[thebadbad]

Did you solve it? Else show us the bit of $data where the URL occurs, and a print_r() of $matches.