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ScottOBot
ScottOBot

Reputation: 849

PHP - Parsing String From HTML File

Hey guys I'm parsing a bunch of data from an html file in PHP using the preg_match_all($pattern, $htmlPage, $matches) method (regular expressions) and am having some issues creating the pattern for the following string: href="http://www.free-tv-video-online.me/player/putlocker.php?id=12VT1372H42OKWGKW" target="_blank"><div>TV Show Season 2 Episode 1.

The pattern consists of two strings with a wildcard string in the middle. This should be fairly simple but I am having trouble escaping the proper characters in the strings on either side of wildcard string. Here is an example of a pattern I have tried.

//Pattern escaping " and < charecters
$patern = "/href=\"http://www.free-tv-video-online.me/player/.*\" target=\"_blank\">\<div>TV Show Season 2 Episode 1/";

I have tried a couple other patterns but all failed. In all attempts I use the regular expression .* to signify the wildcard string. What is the correct pattern to parse all occurrences of this string out of an HTML file?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 169

Answers (3)

bagonyi
bagonyi

Reputation: 3328

http://www.phpliveregex.com/p/2lc

preg_match("/href=\"http\:\/\/www\.free\-tv\-video\-online\.me\/player\/.*\" target=\"_blank\">\<div>TV Show Season 2 Episode 1/", 'href="http://www.free-tv-video-online.me/player/putlocker.php?id=12VT1372H42OKWGKW" target="_blank"><div>TV Show Season 2 Episode 1', $output);

$output will look like this:

Array
(
    [0] => href="http://www.free-tv-video-online.me/player/putlocker.php?id=12VT1372H42OKWGKW" target="_blank"><div>TV Show Season 2 Episode 1
)

Upvotes: 1

DavidRR
DavidRR

Reputation: 19397

Try also escaping your inner / characters:

"/href=\"http:\/\/www.free-tv-video-online.me\/player\/.*\" target=\"_blank\"><div>TV Show Season 2 Episode 1/"

Upvotes: 1

brian
brian

Reputation: 2775

You added an extra /. 9th character on the second pattern. Just take it out.

Edit: Now the first pattern since you've edited the original post.

Upvotes: 0

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