preg-match

I have the following HTML code: <span role="button" class="a-n S1xjN" tabindex="0">414,817 people</span> How to use preg_match function to get the 414817 number? Amal Murali The Better Solution A regex is the wrong tool here. HTML is not a regular language , and cannot be accurately parsed using regular expressions. Use a DOM parser instead. Not only is it much easier, it's more accurate and reliable, and won't break when the format of the markup changes in the future. This is how you would get the contents inside a <span> tag using PHP's built-in DOMDocument class: $dom = new DOMDocument;

I found that syntax of preg_match() and the deprecated ereg() is different. For example: I thought that preg_match('/^<div>(.*)</div>$/', $content); means the same as ereg('^<div>(.*)</div>$', $content); but I was wrong. preg_match() doesn't include special characters as enter like ereg() does. So I started to use this syntax: preg_match('/^<div>([^<]*)</div>$/', $content); but it isn't exactly the same to what I need. Can anyone suggest me how to solve this problem, without using deprecated functions? CSᵠ For parsing HTML I'd suggest reading this question and choosing a built in PHP extension

So I have got this far on my own but It looks like I have found the limit of my PHP knowledge (which isn't very much at all!). This script is for filtering filenames (game roms/iso's etc). It has other ways of filtering too but I've just highlighted the section I'm trying to add. I want a external .txt file I can put names of files in like so (separated by a single line break): Pacman 2 (USA) Space Invaders (USA) Asteroids (USA) Something Else (Europe) And then running the script will search the directory and place any matching filenames in the "removed" folder. It loops fine with all the

The following string contains multiple <p> tags. I want to match the contents of each of the <p> with a pattern, and if it matches, I want to add a css class to that specific paragraph. For example in the following string, only the second paragraph content matches, so i want to add a class to that paragraph only. $string = '<p>para 1</p><p>نص عربي أو فارسي</p><p>para3</p>'; With the following code, I can match all of the string, but I am unable to figure out how to find the specific paragraph. $rtl_chars_pattern = '/[\x{0590}-\x{05ff}\x{0600}-\x{06ff}]/u'; $return = preg_match($rtl_chars

I want a preg_match code that will detect a given string and get its wrapping element. I have a string and a html code like: $string = "My text"; $html = "<div><p class='text'>My text</p><span>My text</span></div>"; So i need to create a function that will return the element wrapping the string like: $element = get_wrapper($string, $html); function get_wrapper($str, $code){ //code here that has preg_match and return the wrapper element } The returned value will be array since it has 2 possible returning values which are <p class='text'></p> and <span></span> Anyone can give me a regex pattern

Is it possible to match two words that might come in random sequences? Examples: $title = "2 pcs watch for couple"; $title = "couple watch 2 pcs"; Currently I'm using two regexes: if (preg_match("/2( )?pcs/i", $title) and preg_match("/couple/i", $title)) Just want to know if it can be done with only 1? If you're just testing for the presence of the two words in the string you could use '/couple.*2 pcs|2 pcs.*couple/' use strpos() if(strpos($string, '2 pcs') !== False){ //its found } or matching at first and at end if(preg_match("/(^(2 pcs|couples)|(2 pcs|couples)$)/", '2 pcs watch for couples'

I have some problem to create a preg_match() inside my switch statement. I want to write preg_match that match /oop/page/view/[some-number]. For now its working like: If I run in my browser http://example.com/oop/page/view/1 its shows '404 page'. And when I run some address for example http://example.com/oop/page/view/test or even /oop/test its run 2nd case and dont know yet how. For sure something is wrong in my regex expresion.. public function check(){ $url = filter_input(INPUT_GET, 'url'); switch ($url) { case '': echo 'HomePage'; break; case preg_match('#^/oop/page/view/\d+$#', $url):