Preg_match not finding a string in HTML

[livewire1974]

I am trying to extract a table from HTML, here is the HTML code for the start of the table.

 

 

<table class='price' id='comp' style='clear:both;display:none'>

But when I use this PHP code, no matches are found

 

 

preg_match("/<table class='price' id='comp' style='clear:both;display:none'>.*?<\/[\s]*table>/s", $buffer, $matches);
print_r($matches);

 

I guess there is something wrong with the preg_match statement?

 

 

[AyKay47]

if you want to match that exact format, you can use this.

 

$str = "<table class='price' id='comp' style='clear:both;display:none'>";
$pattern = '~<table class=("|\')price("|\') id=("|\')comp("|\') style=("|\')clear:both;display:none("|\')>~';
preg_match($pattern,$str,$matches);
print_r($matches);

 

where $matches[0] will contain the matched string.

 

if you want this regex to match a dynamic beginning <table> element, I will have to revise it.

[livewire1974]

Hi, thanks for your reply. I am trying to select all of the table, so everything from the opening tag to the </table> tag.

 

Is this possible?

 

Thanks in advance

[AyKay47]

oh okay, of course it's possible:

 

$str = "<table class='price' id='comp' style='clear:both;display:none'>this is a test</table>";
$pattern = '~<table[^>]*>([^<]*)</table>~';
preg_match($pattern,$str,$matches);
print_r($matches);

 

$matches[0] will contain the entire matched string and $matches[1] will contain the text between <table</table>

[livewire1974]

But that will select all tables in the HTML file, and not just the tables with class='price' ?

[AyKay47]

you're not giving me enough to go on here, tell me the exact specifications of what table(s) you want to grab, and if you want to grab more than one table.

[livewire1974]

Sorry, mistake. All sorted now

 

Thanks for helping out, spent a lot of time messing with this

[joe92]

But that will select all tables in the HTML file, and not just the tables with class='price' ?

 

No. Preg_match will always stop after the first successful match. Preg_match_all however, is the one that will match them all.

[AyKay47]

Sorry, mistake. All sorted now

 

Thanks for helping out, spent a lot of time messing with this

 

im curious to see what the regex you are using looks like?