regex and html parsing!

[ShaolinF]

Hi Guys

 

I am trying to get some content between some div tags but cannot do so thus far. Code and regex below:

 

<blockquote class="postcontent restore ">

content here

</blockquote>

 

Regex:

/<blockquote class=\"postcontent restore \">(.*?)<\/blockquote>/

 

Returns nothing.. Any ideas on where I am going wrong ?

 

 

 

[Alex]

You're close, you just need to add the m modifier to make the dot match newlines.

 

/<blockquote class=\"postcontent restore \">(.*?)<\/blockquote>/m

[ShaolinF]

Thanks but that didnt work either

[Alex]

Are you sure you're trying it with the exact example you provided us? Because it works for me.

 

Note that you have a space on this line:

 

<blockquote class="postcontent restore ">

Within the class. You probably want to remove that from both the HTML and the pattern.

[ShaolinF]

Yes, I copy/pasted it into my editor.

Bare in mind the 'content here' bit being wrapped in the blockquotes will hold data pulled from a WYSIWYG editor. BTW, the space is meant to be there.

[cags]

It's the s modifier that will make the . match newline characters, not the m.

[Alex]

Yeah, cags is right. I was confusing PCRE regular expressions with Ruby regular expressions where the m modifier makes newlines be treated as regular characters (and thus be matched by the period).