Pattern Matching Question

[denhamd2]

Hi,

 

I have HTML stored in a variable $html

 

Buried in there is a link with the anchor text as New York

 

therefore in the $html variable somewhere is <a href="somelink">New York</a>

 

Is there any way using pattern matching that would let me get the link used to link to the text New York?

 

There is a few links with the text New York but I only want to get the link from the first one.

 

Been agonising over this for ages so if anyone could help it would really save my life.

 

Thanks in advance

[monk.e.boy]

if (preg_match('/<a\\shref="([^"]*)"[^>]*>New\\sYork<\/a>/', $subject, $regs)) {
$result = $regs[1];
} else {
$result = "";
}

 

This will return "somelink"

 

I say, http://www.regexbuddy.com/ is fun fun fun.

 

monk.e.boy

[monk.e.boy]

Oh, I just realised that a link:

 

<a href=poop.html>New York</a>

 

is valid html but won't match  oops. You'll have to figure that out.

 

monk.e.boy

[denhamd2]

that doesn't seem to work any ideas?

[monk.e.boy]

post your code.

 

Are you passing in $html? as $subject?

 

monk.e.boy