preg_match to find a string

[Firestarter]

I want to find a string of text then print out the text after it.

This is what i'm using now } elseif (preg_match('/CustName\:\s+([^\n]+)/i',$string,$matches)) {
It finds a line that begins with CustName: and grabs the text after that ending at the end of the line.
But now I have to find a line that begins with </pre><pre><b>role</b>: and do the same thing but with all the special characters in there i'm lost and can't figure it out.  And help would be greatly appreciated.

[c4onastick]

You're on the right track, a few things:
[code]preg_match('/^CustName:\s*(.+)/', $string, $match);[/code]
The colon isn't a metacharacter so you don't need to escape it. As long as you don't use the 's' modifier the dot metacharacter can't match a newline (\n), so you can get away with using the dot in a greedy fashion.

Post some sample data. But from what it sounds like you're describing you may want something like this:
[code]preg_match_all('/^(\w+):\s*(.+)/m', $string, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);[/code]
This will pull out all the little "label: text text text" pairs.

[Firestarter]

Here is my code http://sftp.biz/scripts/whois/index.txt you can use it by going to http://sftp.biz/scripts/whois/index.php this script locates the owner of and ip address.  It does a pretty good job.  Thanks for your help.  But the only thing I have trouble is ripe.net one of the sites that it uses to get whois info has way too many variables to allow it to get the right info so I added some extra code.  If you have any ideas how I can improve it input is greatly appreciated.

[c4onastick]

Looks good, and works good too! I usually use cURL for doing things of this nature, its more robust.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.curl.php
Integrating curl into your script may give you some additional flexibility down the road.

[Firestarter]

Thanks it's going pretty good just have to keep testing it.  I use it mostly as a plugin for another script located below.  But it's great for checking ips in my web site logs and email headers.
[img]http://sftp.biz/scripts/counter/image.php?site=test&show=counter[/img]

[Firestarter]

Is it possible to use a preg_match but if the match contains a certain word just ignore it.  I have some code below but would like it to just continue searching for matches if what it finds contains a word.  Thank you

[code] preg_match('/org-name:\s*(.+)/',$ripedata,$matches);
if ($matches[1] == "")preg_match('/role\<\/b\>:\s*(.+)/',$ripedata,$matches);
if ($matches[1] == "")preg_match('/descr:\s*(.+)/',$ripedata,$matches);
$isp = $matches[1];[/code]

[effigy]

Can you give an example?

[Firestarter]

I would like to use the preg_match('/role\<\/b\>:\s*(.+)/',$ripedata,$matches); command and if it finds a word say hostmaster it would skip it and not return a match.

[effigy]

Use a negative lookahead: [tt]%role\</b\>:\s*(?!hostmaster)(.+)%[/tt]

[Firestarter]

Thanks for pointing me in te right direction.  I used preg_match('%/role\</b\>:\s*(?!hostmaster)(.+)/%',$string,$matches);  Worked great.

[effigy]

You're not matching forward slashes on the ends are you? I used the percent sign as a delimiter to avoid escaping forward slashes; therefore, you do not need the slashes by the percent signs unless you're really matching them. Delimiters are flexible in PCRE.