[SOLVED] Regexp not matching ?!

[chrisran]

$string="««« </form>  </td>  <td>IWantThisString<BR>";

 

I've tried with:

 

$exp="/««« </form>  </td>  <td>(.*?)<BR>/";

 

But got no luck, the array is empty.

 

Do I have to skip the spaces in some way ?

 

Thanks

 

Chris

[nrg_alpha]

The issue is that you are using / as your delimiters, but you are not escaping all / instances inside the pattern (example, </form> becomes <\/form>).

For this reason alone, I avoid using / as delimiters.. you could rewrite the pattern as such:

 

$exp='#(?:«){3}\s+</form>\s+</td>\s+<td>(.*?)<BR>#';

 

Instead of matching literal space for space, I made use of \s+ (which is a shorthand for any whitespace character, one or more times), just in case you run into instances where there is two conscutive spaces as opposed to a single one.

[chrisran]

Thanks, that was is, it works now !