preg_match_all but in one line?

[vin_akleh]

i can match this pattern

/<a href="\/How_I_Met_Your_Mother\/season-1\/episode-1\/search\?page=\d+".+\d+<\/a>/i

but my priblem is that this pattern selects line by line into an array

what i need it to do is that it selects every match in 1 single line and puts it in a array with different index.

 

$html=<div class="pagination"><span class="disabled prev_page">« Previous</span> <span class="current">1</span> <a href="/How_I_Met_Your_Mother/season-1/episode-1/search?page=2" rel="next">2</a> <a href="/How_I_Met_Your_Mother/season-1/episode-1/search?page=3">3</a> <a href="/How_I_Met_Your_Mother/season-1/episode-1/search?page=4">4</a> <a href="/How_I_Met_Your_Mother/season-1/episode-1/search?page=2" class="next_page" rel="next">Next »</a></div>

//*this is all in one line not multiple lines*
//if this was in multiple lines i wouldn't have this problem

preg_match_all('/<a href="\/How_I_Met_Your_Mother\/season-1\/episode-1\/search\?page=.*/', $html, $pages);
preg_match_all('#<a.+href="/How_I_Met_Your_Mother/season-\d+/episode-\d+/search\?page=\d+.+?">[^<]+</a>#', $html, $pages);
for ($i=0;$i<sizeof($pages[0]);$i++)
{
	echo $pages[0][$i];
	echo $pages[0][0];
	echo $pages[0][1]; //////////////////////////////////////////this would give undefined index
}

 

any suggestions would be appreciated.

[wildteen88]

Wrap parentheses around the text your wanting to capture

preg_match_all('#(<a href="/How_I_Met_Your_Mother/season-\d+/episode-\d+/search\?page=\d".*?>[^<]+</a>)#', $html, $pages);

 

print_r($pages) returns

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => <a href="/How_I_Met_Your_Mother/season-1/episode-1/search?page=2" rel="next">2</a> 
            [1] => <a href="/How_I_Met_Your_Mother/season-1/episode-1/search?page=3">3</a> 
            [2] => <a href="/How_I_Met_Your_Mother/season-1/episode-1/search?page=4">4</a> 
            [3] => <a href="/How_I_Met_Your_Mother/season-1/episode-1/search?page=2"class="next_page" rel="next">Next »</a> 
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [0] => <a href="/How_I_Met_Your_Mother/season-1/episode-1/search?page=2" rel="next">2</a> 
            [1] => <a href="/How_I_Met_Your_Mother/season-1/episode-1/search?page=3">3</a> 
            [2] => <a href="/How_I_Met_Your_Mother/season-1/episode-1/search?page=4">4</a> 
            [3] => <a href="/How_I_Met_Your_Mother/season-1/episode-1/search?page=2"class="next_page" rel="next">Next »</a> 
        )

)

[vin_akleh]

thanks