thales.pereira Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 Hello everyone, Im new on regex and im blocking my brain with this one... i have a php file wich extract an html page seeking for every entry which is located bellow the tag <TD valign="top"><B>name</B></TD> for example: <TD valign="top"><B>name</B></TD> <TD>Administrators</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD valign="top"><B>inUse</B></TD> <TD>true</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD valign="top"><B>allow</B></TD> <TD valign="top"><B>name</B></TD> <TD>Users</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD valign="top"><B>inUse</B></TD> <TD>true</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD valign="top"><B>allow</B></TD> <TD valign="top"><B>name</B></TD> <TD>Developers</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD valign="top"><B>inUse</B></TD> <TD>true</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD valign="top"><B>allow</B></TD> Until now, im only able seek the lines with: $html = strip_tags(file_get_contents("http://$iUser:$iPass@$iHost/invoke/wm.server.access/aclList")); preg_match_all('/(name.*\n.*)/', substr($html,3), $matches); print_r ($matches) ##### OUTPUT ###### Array ( [ 0 ] => Array ( [ 0 ] => name Administrators [ 1 ] => name Users [ 2 ] => name Developers ) ) but... my desirable output is: ##### OUTPUT ###### Array ( [ 0 ] => Array ( [ 0 ] => Administrators [ 1 ] => Users [ 2 ] => Developers ) ) If anyone could help on this, im paying a virtual beer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sasa Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 try <?php $test = '<TD valign="top"><B>name</B></TD> <TD>Administrators</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD valign="top"><B>inUse</B></TD> <TD>true</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD valign="top"><B>allow</B></TD> <TD valign="top"><B>name</B></TD> <TD>Users</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD valign="top"><B>inUse</B></TD> <TD>true</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD valign="top"><B>allow</B></TD> <TD valign="top"><B>name</B></TD> <TD>Developers</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD valign="top"><B>inUse</B></TD> <TD>true</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD valign="top"><B>allow</B></TD>'; preg_match_all('/<TD valign="top"><B>name<\/B><\/TD>.*?<TD>([^<]+)<\/TD>/is', $test, $out); print_r($out[1]); ?> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silkfire Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 Sure do. Your results are in $matches[1], remember that. $matches[0] is the full captured pattern, including characters you don't want. I tried your regex and it doesn't seem to work so I changed it a a litte. Also you don't need to strip tags before regex, do it after. Try to print_r the array now. $html = file_get_contents("http://$iUser:$iPass@$iHost/invoke/wm.server.access/aclList"); preg_match_all('#name</B></TD>\s<td>([^<]+)#i', $html, $matches); print_r($matches[1]); Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thales.pereira Posted March 9, 2011 Author Share Posted March 9, 2011 Thank you both for the reply. it worked like a charm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silkfire Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Which solution did you end up with? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thales.pereira Posted March 9, 2011 Author Share Posted March 9, 2011 I tested yours first. Since it worked, i didn't tried the first suggestion by sasa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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