HTML usually change very often. Especially properties. A link can change from: <a href="/">Home</a> to: <a class="something" href="/">Home</a> So, your regex must avoid using the properties to match elements So, I think this should be a better expresion preg_match_all( '#<p[^>]*><font[^>]*>(.+)<br/?>(.+)<br/?>(.+)Critical Violations Found:#imsU', $html, // <-- your variable with the text $match // <-- here PHP sets the matches ); print_r( $match ); // <-- take a look at the results, loop over these are quite easy http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match-all.php Also using # as delimiter leaves you the / for simpler use, avoiding an extra backslash. On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Miller, Terion < tmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > Ok, so I've been plunged further into using php by being tasked to use it > with regex (yes tylenol extra strength needed please) So far I have my code > that grabs a full block of text by paragraphs, now I have to somehow write > a > snippet that goes inside this block and pulls out each line and puts each > line in a db, the different lines of text are broken with <br> tags so that > should be fairly simple? Right, here is what I have so far, I have played > with some of the regex tester tools online but am not having any luck once > inside the first block, which makes me think I'm doing it wrong. > > My wobbley code thus far I know it must have a long way to go: > This grabs everything paragraph by paragraph: > <?php > $results = preg_match_all('/<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, > sans-serif">(.+)<br>(.+)<br>(.+)Critical Violations Found:/imsU'); > > > Now I need to grab each line in the paragraph and am stuck:..... > > //---at some point I have to strip the tags off of what will be put in the > db--// > $raw = strip_tags($results); > > > echo $raw; > ?> > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Martin Scotta
