Very simple Regex help

[cordoprod]

Hey,

I'm actually starting to understand some simple regex.

But there is one thing i'm struggling with. I know how to parse simple tags and stuff.

 

But this is the code i need to parse:

var bmenuItems =
[
["Halden", "Tab01", "http://hafas.websrv05.reiseinfo.no/hafas-res/dev/nri/img/vs_rutebok/style02_2_n_icon.gif", "http://hafas.websrv05.reiseinfo.no/hafas-res/dev/nri/img/vs_rutebok/style02_2_s_icon.gif", "http://hafas.websrv05.reiseinfo.no/hafas-res/dev/nri/img/vs_rutebok/style02_2_s_icon.gif", "Oversikt for region 01 Halden", "0"],
["Sarpsborg", "Tab02", "http://hafas.websrv05.reiseinfo.no/hafas-res/dev/nri/img/vs_rutebok/style02_2_n_icon.gif", "http://hafas.websrv05.reiseinfo.no/hafas-res/dev/nri/img/vs_rutebok/style02_2_s_icon.gif", "http://hafas.websrv05.reiseinfo.no/hafas-res/dev/nri/img/vs_rutebok/style02_2_s_icon.gif", "Oversikt for region 02 Sarpsborg", "0"],
["Fredrikstad", "Tab03", "http://hafas.websrv05.reiseinfo.no/hafas-res/dev/nri/img/vs_rutebok/style02_2_n_icon.gif", "http://hafas.websrv05.reiseinfo.no/hafas-res/dev/nri/img/vs_rutebok/style02_2_s_icon.gif", "http://hafas.websrv05.reiseinfo.no/hafas-res/dev/nri/img/vs_rutebok/style02_2_s_icon.gif", "Oversikt for region 03 Fredrikstad", "0"],
["Moss", "Tab04", "http://hafas.websrv05.reiseinfo.no/hafas-res/dev/nri/img/vs_rutebok/style02_2_n_icon.gif", "http://hafas.websrv05.reiseinfo.no/hafas-res/dev/nri/img/vs_rutebok/style02_2_s_icon.gif", "http://hafas.websrv05.reiseinfo.no/hafas-res/dev/nri/img/vs_rutebok/style02_2_s_icon.gif", "Oversikt for region 04 Moss", "0"],
["Indre Østfold", "Tab05", "http://hafas.websrv05.reiseinfo.no/hafas-res/dev/nri/img/vs_rutebok/style02_2_n_icon.gif", "http://hafas.websrv05.reiseinfo.no/hafas-res/dev/nri/img/vs_rutebok/style02_2_s_icon.gif", "http://hafas.websrv05.reiseinfo.no/hafas-res/dev/nri/img/vs_rutebok/style02_2_s_icon.gif", "Oversikt for region 05 Indre Østfold", "0"],
];

 

I need to get out all the ones with inside ["xxxxx", 

For example: Halden, Sarpsborg

 

I've tried this:

$linjer = preg_match_all('/([")(\w.*)(",.*)/', $htmlCode, $linjerMatches);

 

But when i do var_dump the output is NULL.

[salathe]

Your regular expression is malformed, it will thrown an E_WARNING (which your error reporting should be displaying!) stating as much.

 

One way to access those values with a regular expression is:

$places = array();
if (preg_match_all('/^\["([\pL ]+)",/mu', $subject, $matches)) {
$places = $matches[1];
}

print_r($places);

 

The expression looks for "the start of a line, followed by the characters [", followed by one or more unicode letters or ASCII space characters (these are captured for use later), followed by the characters ",. The pattern modifiers mu ask the matching engine to use multiline mode (so ^ matches at the start of any line rather than just the start of the entire string) and UTF-8 mode (so non-ASCII characters can be matched easily).

 

[cordoprod]

Thanks for the reply but unfortunatly it didn't work out.

I outputs an array like this:

array(2) {
  [0]=>
  array(0) {
  }
  [1]=>
  array(0) {
  }
}

 

But be aware that the HTML i posted, was not the whole parse html.

It was a big website, so the first line in the HTML code wasn't the first line in the web page code.

[cordoprod]

Ok, i figured it out by just changing some small stuff.

$linjer = preg_match_all('/\["([\pL ]+)",/', $htmlCode, $linjerMatches);

 

Thanks a lot