[SOLVED] $pat = '/\<td\>[ ]+?[^ ].+: \<strong\>([0-9,]+?)\<\/strong\> \(([0-9\.]+?)[ ].+?

[dsaba]

(yes that's the most descriptive title I could come up with, other than "regex help")

 

haystack 1:

<?php 
$haystack = '<td class="panelsurround" align="center">	<div class="panel">		<div align="right">					<div class="fieldset">				<div style="padding:3px">					תאריך הצטרפות: <strong>04-28-2007</strong>				</div>			</div>						<fieldset class="fieldset">				<legend>הודעות</legend>				<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="3" border="0">				<tr>					<td>						סך הכל הודעות: <strong>3,117</strong> (13.63 הודעות בכל יום)					</td>				</tr>								<tr>					<td><a href="search.php?do=finduser&u=3095" rel="nofollow">מצא את כל ההודעות על ידי ThaiB0X</a></td>				</tr>				<tr>					<td><a href="search.php?do=process&showposts=0&starteronly=1&exactname=1&searchuser=ThaiB0X" rel="nofollow">מצא את כל הנושאים שנכתבו על ידי ThaiB0X</a></td>				</tr>				</table>			</fieldset>';
?>

 

*edit haystack 1 is encoded in utf-8, the language is hebrew, but the codebox converts it to html entities so i'm putting it in the quotebox instead:

<td class="panelsurround" align="center"> <div class="panel"> <div align="right"> <div class="fieldset"> <div style="padding:3px"> תאריך הצטרפות: <strong>04-28-2007</strong> </div> </div> <fieldset class="fieldset"> <legend>הודעות</legend> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="3" border="0"> <tr> <td> סך הכל הודעות: <strong>3,117</strong> (13.63 הודעות בכל יום) </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="search.php?do=finduser&u=3095" rel="nofollow">מצא את כל ההודעות על ידי ThaiB0X</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="search.php?do=process&showposts=0&starteronly=1&exactname=1&searchuser=ThaiB0X" rel="nofollow">מצא את כל הנושאים שנכתבו על ידי ThaiB0X</a></td> </tr> </table> </fieldset>'

 

haystack 2:

<?php 
$haystack = '<tr>	<td class="tcat" width="50%">Around the world</td>	<td class="tcat" width="50%">Bla bla bla</td></tr><tr valign="top">	<td class="panelsurround" align="center">	<div class="panel">		<div align="left">					<div class="fieldset">				<div style="padding:3px">					Coffee Donuts: <strong>06 Jan 2002</strong>				</div>			</div>						<fieldset class="fieldset">				<legend>Books</legend>				<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="3" border="0">				<tr>					<td>						Cheap Electronics: <strong>15,300</strong> (7.06 scratch your head)					</td>				</tr>								<tr>					<td><a href="url" rel="nofollow">Sunshine is good for the body</a></td>				</tr>				<tr>					<td><a href="url.php/whatever/ok.php" rel="nofollow">The great corral reef is in Australia</a></td>				</tr>				</table>			</fieldset>';

?>

 

<?php
$pat = '/\<td\>[ ]+?[^ ].+: \<strong\>([0-9,]+?)\<\/strong\> \(([0-9\.]+?)[ ].+?\)[ ]+?\<\/td\>/';
preg_match_all($pat, $haystack, $out);
print_r($out);
?>

 

 

the two substrings that I would like to match are shown in this simplified example below, the substrings I want to match are enclosed in { } brackets

The actual haystrack though does not have these brackets

<td>		סך הכל הודעות: <strong>{3,116}</strong> ({13.63} הודעות בכל יום)		</td>

 

The haystacks will be encoded in utf-8.

Can you fix my regex code, or tell me what i'm doing wrong?? My above regex comes up with no matches at all.

- Thank you.

[rajivgonsalves]

try

 

$pat = '~<strong>([0-9,]+)</strong> \(([0-9\.]+)~';

 

[dsaba]

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
        )

    [2] => Array
        (
        )

)

 

That's my result with that change, even after I fixed the extra ) parenthesis you forgot to add.

I tried:

$pat = '~<strong>([0-9,]+)</strong> \(([0-9\.]+)\)~';

[rajivgonsalves]

The extra parentess was not suppossed to be added

[dsaba]

I tried it verbatim as you first suggested and it didn't work, then I added the extra parenthesis. Still didn't work.

 

Now I tried this:

$pat = '~: \<strong\>([0-9,]+?)\</strong\> \(([0-9\.]+?) .~';

 

Doesn't work either.

 

 

So then I tried this: (took the question marks out)

$pat = '~: \<strong\>([0-9,]+)\</strong\> \(([0-9\.]+) .~';

 

also didn't work