why isn't this working?

[tadakan]

I'm trying to write a regex for a url that starts out with the same subdomain.domain and so and then deviates with the arguments that are sent to it.

 

What I originally thought was working:

%http://appraisalzone.lendervend.com/AssignOrder.aspx.[a-zA-Z0-9/?=&-]{1,}/.$%

 

I'm parsing this out of an email and it turns out that email has the link somewhat different than it appears in a client.  It looks like the link is partially in hex?

 

anyway the print_r of the email from stdin() gives this link:

<a =

href=3D"http://appraisalzone.lendervend.com/AssignOrder.aspx?orderid=3D35=

7262&userid=3D116315&customerorderid=3DEFC33B67-A60D-434B-99E1-7D=

4FA5C9DA1C

 

There are also either newline or carriage returns in there that I'm not sure how to allow for in the regex.

 

[Adam]

The email's in HTML entities. Just run it through html_entity_decode first. As for matching new-lines, you can add the 's' modifier after the last percent:

 

[...] {1,}/.$%s

 

Edit: Actually if the email string is split over multiple lines, you might want to first remove line-breaks, using similar to:

 

$string = str_replace(array("\n", "\r"), '', $string);

 

.. As the 's' modifier will allow only the dot character to match over multiple-lines.

[tadakan]

It was the html entities. 

 

Thank you so much, I thought I needed to figured out how to use the mime parsing abilities of php and that was looking daunting.