Help parsing HTML

[Airhead315]

Im having probably the most rediculous problems with the simplest regular expression ever. Here is the code im trying to parse out of:

<B>Original Message:</B>
<P>
<b>Posted by:</b> someguys name
  (<a href="mailto:[email protected]
">[email protected]
</a>)<BR>
<b>Organization:</b><a href="http://www.somesite.com
">JAQUET Ltd
</a> <BR><b>Date posted:</b> Thu Jan 14  5:23:11 US/Eastern 2001
<br>
<b>Subject:</b> some subject of a forum
<br>
<b>Message:</b><br> some long message that has no html tags in it
no breaks and no other weird charachters

 

I tried getting just one part of the meta data I wanted with the following code

preg_match("/<b>Posted by:<\/b>(.*)<BR>/i", $parts[$i],$innerparts);
echo $innerparts[1];

 

As you can see im trying to get the Name/Email of the user who posted the message. However im not getting anything back("Undefined offset: 1")

 

$parts[$i] holds the content shown above.

 

I also tried the following lines with the same result

preg_match("/\<b\>Posted by:\<\/b\>(.*)\<BR\>/i", $parts[$i],$innerparts);

preg_match("/<b>Posted by:<\/b>(.*?)<BR>/i", $parts[$i],$innerparts);

preg_match("/<b>Posted by:<\/b>(.*?)<BR>/i", $parts[$i],$innerparts);

[Wildbug]

I would use this:

 

preg_match("/<b>Posted by:<\/b>(.*?)<BR>/is", $parts[$i],$innerparts);

 

It looks like you've got newlines in your input, and the dot metacharacter won't match newlines unless you give it permission in the form of the /s modifier.