regex for matching everything but URL that starts with http.

[jamesmiller]

Hey guys, generally i have a regular expression like this

 	$expr = '!/blahblah/!i'; 

 

and its grabbing the hrefs with /blahblah/ but also grabbing http://www.blah/blahblah/ and i want it to exclude any hrefs with http:// before it. thank you guys

[xyph]

Does teh string have to have a leading slash?

 

%(?<!http:/)/blahblah/%

 

Using negative lookbehind

[jamesmiller]

Yeah it does, thank you that doesnt seem to have worked still retreiving hrefs with http in front of them

[xyph]

Providing sample data will help with that.

 

My expression worked very well with the sample you provided.

 

Then again, you're the same guy that provides very little REAL data to test our expressions against, and likes to modify someone else's RegEx before saying it "doesn't work"

[jamesmiller]

my apologies the actual real sample data is <a href="/torrents/798659/Jim-avi"> and i want it to retrieve all the hrefs with /torrents/but i dont want it to reteriev the hrefs with <a href="http://www.fulldls.com/torrents/Jim" target="_blank"> thats the propper sample data, the other post i really tried the regex and it didnt work for me apologies once again

[xyph]

It seems like you want us to help you parse a web page. Again. Did it ever occur to you to maybe, post a link to the URL you want? Or perhaps the complete source of the web page?

 

We can't guess what magical differences might occur between the samples you give us and the data you use it on.

 

Before you reply with "this doesn't work," please put together some REAL SAMPLE DATA (IE: THE SOURCE YOU WANT TO EXTRACT THE INFORMATION FROM) or I'll just ignore the thread.

 

<?php 

$expr = '%"(?<!http:/)(/[^"]++)"%';

$data = 'my apologies the actual real sample data is <a href="/torrents/798659/Jim-avi"> and i want it to retrieve all the hrefs with /torrents/but i dont want it to reteriev the hrefs with <a href="http://www.fulldls.com/torrents/Jim" target="_blank"> thats the propper sample data, the other post i really tried the regex and it didnt work for me apologies once again';

preg_match_all( $expr, $data, $matches );

print_r( $matches );

?>

 

OUTPUT

 

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => "/torrents/798659/Jim-avi"
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [0] => /torrents/798659/Jim-avi
        )

)

 

That was from an exact copy and paste of your reply. If it doesn't work, it's your fault.

[jamesmiller]

Ok sample data wise this is the URL http://www.torrentreactor.net/search.php?search=2&words=Linux&lang=

[xyph]

I don't know what you're doing or changing.

 

<?php 

$site = 'http://www.torrentreactor.net/search.php?search=2&words=Linux&lang=';
$expr = '%"(/torrents/[^"]++)"%';
$data = file_get_contents($site);

preg_match_all( $expr, $data, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER );

if( empty($matches) )
echo 'No matches found';
else
foreach( $matches as $k => $match ) {
	echo "Match $k -> {$match[1]}<br>\n";
}

?>

 

Output (as of 13/9/2001 14:25 -08:00 GMT)

Match 0 -> /torrents/839930/Kurumin-Linux-7-0-Final-%28Brazilian-Linux-distribution%29
Match 1 -> /torrents/994128/Linux-books-amp%3B-Linux-Programming-books
Match 2 -> /torrents/2036087/Linux-Security-%28Craig-Hunt-Linux-Library-Series%29%7Etqw%7E-darksiderg
Match 3 -> /torrents/3315461/Linux-Real-Time-Linux-Who-needs-it%3F
Match 4 -> /torrents/3453932/Linux-Transfer-for-Windows-Power-Users-Getting-Started-with-Linux-for-the-Desktop-%28
Match 5 -> /torrents/3460090/Securing-Linux-A-Survival-Guide-for-Linux-Security-Version-1-0-2003-allfeeebook-tk
Match 6 -> /torrents/3482085/Puppy-Linux-4-3-1-%28Linux-1CD-ENG%29-Sistema-Operativo-PC-light-amp%3B-live-%28TNT-Village%29
Match 7 -> /torrents/3517319/Securing-Linux-A-Survival-Guide-for-Linux-Security-Version-1-0
Match 8 -> /torrents/4846856/Linux-For-Dummies-6th-Edition-%282005%29-Linux-For-Dummies-7th-Edition-%282006%29
Match 9 -> /torrents/4937930/Understanding-The-Linux-Kernel-3rd-Edition-%282005%29-chm-Understanding-The-Linux-Kernel-2nd-Edition-%282002%29-chm
Match 10 -> /torrents/4999164/The-Linux-Programming-Interface-A-Linux-and-UNIX-System-Programming-Handbook
Match 11 -> /torrents/38107/SUSE-Linux-10-Live-CD
Match 12 -> /torrents/52749/Various-Linux-and-Unix-Books-PDF-%2F-CHM-%2F-HTML
Match 13 -> /torrents/195234/WMware-v4%2Bv5-workstation-Linux%2FWindows-Keymaker-TEAM-ZWT
Match 14 -> /torrents/254667/Maple-9-5-Hybrid-Mac-OS-X%2FLinux%2FWindows
Match 15 -> /torrents/320302/Mathematica-5-2-Win-Linux-Mac
Match 16 -> /torrents/461371/Open-SUSE-Linux-10-1-for-x86-32-bit-Official-ISO
Match 17 -> /torrents/569062/RevolutionOS-%28Linux-story%29-avi
Match 18 -> /torrents/750568/Visual-SlickEdit-version-11-Windows-%2B-Linux
Match 19 -> /torrents/806233/Novell-Course-3071-SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Server10-Fundamentals-e
Match 20 -> /torrents/838710/Ubuntu-Linux-Bible-Jan-2007-pdf
Match 21 -> /torrents/955297/Cisco-Java-Perl-C-C%2B%2B-Linux-PHP-Ebooks
Match 22 -> /torrents/956762/Linux-Magazine-HorsSerie-BSD-Acte1-FRENCH-eBook-pdf
Match 23 -> /torrents/1034967/Understanding-The-Linux-Kernel-3rd-Edition
Match 24 -> /torrents/1064721/Red-Hat-Linux-Networking-And-System-Administration
Match 25 -> /torrents/1070173/Damn-Small-Linux-3-4
Match 26 -> /torrents/1118254/Wicked-Cool-Shell-Scripts-101-Scripts-For-Linux-Mac-OS-X-An
Match 27 -> /torrents/1118722/Beginning-Ubuntu-Linux-2nd-Edition
Match 28 -> /torrents/1124744/Beginning-SUSE-Linux-From-Novice-To-Professional
Match 29 -> /torrents/1126905/SELinux-By-Example-Using-Security-Enhanced-Linux
Match 30 -> /torrents/1126922/Puppy-Linux-2-17-1
Match 31 -> /torrents/1131875/Penumbra%3A-Overture-Linux-x86_64
Match 32 -> /torrents/1143158/Beginning-Linux-Programming-3rd-DDU-pdf
Match 33 -> /torrents/1176753/For-Dummies-Linux-For-Dummies-8th-Edition-Jul-2007-eBook-BBL
Match 34 -> /torrents/1181957/WOLFRAM-RESEARCH-MATHEMATICA-V6-0-1-WINDOWS-LINUX-MAC-EDGEISO