escaping single quote within single quotes query

[devnine]

I'm trying to write a web scraper for the source code of a webpage.

 

The regex expersssion I'm using is (.+?) which means match everything from here until the delimiter which is a ' character.

 

$regex = '/&kingdom=(.+?) \' /';

preg_match($regex,$data,$match);

var_dump($match);

echo $match[1];

 

The problem is that I can' delimit at the ' character.I've tried escaping it like \' but that doesn't work. How do I use the ' character correctly inside single quotes? Thanks.

[Andy-H]

\\'

 

 

:confused:

[devnine]

Thanks but I get this

Warning: Unexpected character in input: ''' (ASCII=39) state=1 in

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ';' in

 

Here is the entire code:

<?php 
$data = file_get_contents('http://kingdomgame.net/Kingdoms/?a=viewKingdoms&world=W10');
$regex = '/&kingdom=(.+?) \\' /';
preg_match($regex,$data,$match);
var_dump($match);
echo $match[1];
?>

 

The source code look like this

viewKingdom&world=W10&kingdomID=9070&kingdom=Shock'>Shock</a></td><td 

and what I'm trying to extract is the text between &kingdom= and '

The output should be Shock in this example.

[Andy-H]

<?php 
$data = file_get_contents('http://kingdomgame.net/Kingdoms/?a=viewKingdoms&world=W10');
$regex = "~&kingdom=(.+?)'~";
preg_match($regex,$data,$match);
var_dump($match);
echo $match[1];
?>

[devnine]

Thanks.

I get the following

array(2) { [0]=> string(15) "&kingdom=Shock'" [1]=> string(5) "Shock" } Shock

 

 

However I am looking for just the text between the = and the ' ie:Shock whereas now I am getting &kingdom=Shock as the string.

[Andy-H]

Form the var_dump $match[1] appears to be "Shock" ??

[devnine]

Yes you are indeed correct. Time to learn about the var_dump function.

Thanks very much.

[Andy-H]

No worries.

 

 

var_dump

 

 

I find for arrays

 

 

echo '<pre>' . print_r($array, true) . '</pre>';

print_r

 

 

is much more readable.