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Al-Punk
Al-Punk

Reputation: 3659

Including OR in a regex pattern (PHP)

Trying to create a pattern that includes an or condition.

$pattern["body"]='/(<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><p>|<h2>)(.*)<div class="like">/s';

The pattern should recognize any text between a series of "<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><p>" or a "<h2>" as the beginning delimiter, but apparently the or condition does not work in this case. Anyone can offer a hint for the correct syntax!? I am striving for 1 hour and I have lost the focus and patience in this rule. THank you in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 98

Answers (3)

user557597
user557597

Reputation:

This might work http://www.ideone.com/zYB1n
But, I'm no php expert.

$regex = '/(?:<\/a>\s*<\/li>\s*<\/ul>\s*<\/div>\s*<p>|<h2>)(?<Text>[\S\s]*)(?=<div class="like">)/';
if (preg_match( $regex, $str1, $matches ))
  print_r( $matches['Text'] );

Upvotes: 0

nachito
nachito

Reputation: 7035

'%(</a></li></ul></div><p>|<h2>)(.*)<div class="like">%s'

I don't have any sample data to test against but it looks like you were there. I only changed the delimiter so it wouldn't have to be escaped, I find it's easier to understand.

Upvotes: 0

Kent
Kent

Reputation: 195199

"(?<=</a></li></ul></div>|<h2>).*"

see below grep test:

kent$  echo "</a></li></ul></div>something"|grep -Po "(?<=</a></li></ul></div>|<h2>).*"                                                  
something

kent$  echo "<h2>something"|grep -Po "(?<=</a></li></ul></div>|<h2>).*"                                                                  
something

Upvotes: 1

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