REG_BADRPT with ereg

[pplexr]

hi,

i am using this regex to extract some content form a html page but this regex dont work and give me Warning: ereg() [function.ereg]: REG_BADRPT

and i tested this code with regexbuddy and it was correct i think maybe its because i should use preg instead of ereg .but i dont know how to do this

here is the regex

$content="html content here";
$pat = '<div id="Body"><p>([\w\W]+)(?:<h3>Related stories</h3>|</div>(?:[\w\W]*)<div id="RelatedStories">)';
$regs = array();
if(ereg($pat,$content,$regs)) {
  $content=$regs[0];
}

thanks,

[Wildbug]

Your pattern is devised for the PCRE functions; not ereg.  Try using preg_match or preg_match_all.

[pplexr]

i tried preg_match and preg_match_all but i got this Warning

Warning: preg_match_all() [function.preg-match-all]: Unknown modifier '<'

any idea?

[Wildbug]

Yeah, you need delimiters.  Read the PCRE Syntax section for more info.

 

$content="html content here";
$pat = '/<div id="Body"><p>(.+?)(?:<h3>Related stories<\/h3>|<\/div>.*?<div id="RelatedStories">)/is';
preg_match_all($pat,$content,$matches,PREG_SET_ORDER);
foreach ($matches as $match) echo "$match[1]<br>\n"; // or whatever

 

You only want to capture this part "(.+?)", right?

[pplexr]

Yeah, you need delimiters.  Read the PCRE Syntax section for more info.

 

$content="html content here";
$pat = '/<div id="Body"><p>(.+?)(?:<h3>Related stories<\/h3>|<\/div>.*?<div id="RelatedStories">)/is';
preg_match_all($pat,$content,$matches,PREG_SET_ORDER);
foreach ($matches as $match) echo "$match[1]<br>\n"; // or whatever

 

You only want to capture this part "(.+?)", right?

 

i tried ur code but i got

Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Unknown modifier '(' 

and yes i want to capture "(.+?)"

 

thanks anyway,

[Wildbug]

It works fine for me.  Are you sure you used it verbatim, or did you modify it?

[pplexr]

well i tried the code alone and it worked fine but when i put it in my script it gives me this error ..anyway i will try to fix this

thanks alot, Wildbug