Brain Fart

[maxudaskin]

Hello all and happy holidays!

I am having a brain fart with my regex and cannot seem to wrap my head around what I am doing wrong.

$regex = '/(?:<thead><tr>)(<th>(.*)<\/th>)+(?:<\/tr><\/thead>)/';

$subject = '<thead><tr><th>Day</th><th>Date</th><th>Duty</th><th>From</th><th>Report</th><th>To</th><th>Release</th><th>Flight Time</th><th>Duty Time</th><th>TAFB Time</th><th>Rest Time</th><th>Sector(s)/Event(s)</th></tr></thead><tbody>...more string';

What I am hoping to get out of this is

['Day', 'Duty', 'From', 'Report',] // ... and so on

But I'm getting this instead

Array(
  '<thead><tr><th>Day</th><th>Date</th><th>Duty</th><th>From</th><th>Report</th><th>To</th><th>Release</th><th>Flight Time</th><th>Duty Time</th><th>TAFB Time</th><th>Rest Time</th><th>Sector(s)/Event(s)</th></tr></thead>',

  '<th>Day</th><th>Date</th><th>Duty</th><th>From</th><th>Report</th><th>To</th><th>Release</th><th>Flight Time</th><th>Duty Time</th><th>TAFB Time</th><th>Rest Time</th><th>Sector(s)/Event(s)</th>',

  'Day</th><th>Date</th><th>Duty</th><th>From</th><th>Report</th><th>To</th><th>Release</th><th>Flight Time</th><th>Duty Time</th><th>TAFB Time</th><th>Rest Time</th><th>Sector(s)/Event(s)',
)

 

[requinix]

Looks like your problem is that you're using regular expressions for parsing HTML instead of PHP's other features.

https://3v4l.org/6mIfq

[gizmola]

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What he said!!

Regex for html parsing and extraction is the wrong tool for the job