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Ben Paton
Ben Paton

Reputation: 1442

Use regular expression to extract longitude from hidden input

I need a regular expression in php to extract the longitude and latitude from this html:

<input type="hidden" value="53.484561000000" id="latitude" />
<input type="hidden" value="-2.951027000000" id="longitude" />

I thought something like this might work:

preg_match('/id="latitude"\s*value="([^"]+)"/', $scrapedHTML, $lat);
preg_match('/id="longitude"\s*value="([^"]+)"/', $scrapedHTML, $lon);

When I do a var_dump of either $lat or $lon I get array(0) {}

Where am I going wrong?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 430

Answers (1)

enridaga
enridaga

Reputation: 641

You should switch the two parts of your regex. Try:

 /value=\"([^"]+)\"\s*id=\"latitude\"/
 /value=\"([^"]+)\"\s*id=\"longitude\"/

Upvotes: 2

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