Preg_match unknown modifyer

[olli460]

Hello,

 

Im trying to write a little script for my forums i need to get the reply from my forums. Im trying this

 

$pattern = '/<span class="postbody">(.*?)</span>/gis';
preg_match($pattern, $post, $video);

 

However inside the stuff its grabbing there is stuff code like </p> etc and it keeps trying to use that as a modifier so i get the following error:

 

Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Unknown modifier 'p' in /home/roms43c/public_html/porn_grab.php on line 21

 

Does anyone know a way around this?

[cags]

This should possibly have been in the Regex forum, but no matter. Because you used forward slash as the delimiters, you have to escape instances of it used in the string...

 

$pattern = '/<span class="postbody">(.*?)<\/span>/gis';

 

... the more common alternative though is to use different delimiters when working with HTML/paths.

 

$pattern = '~<span class="postbody">(.*?)</span>~gis';