use preg_match_all();
the var_dump($matches); to see what happened.
Best regards,
Andrey Hristov
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefen Lars" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 7:27 AM
Subject: [PHP] Returning mutliple matches of a regex with preg_match()
> Hello all
>
> I have been scratching my head for the last two days about this regular
> expression problem. I would be really VERY happy if someone could help me!
>
> I have the following text in the file 'text.htm', for example:
>
> --
>
> <BLOCKQUOTE><P>
> Cow, Cow, Cow, Cow, Cow
> Cow, Cow, Cow, Cow, Cow
> Cow, Cow, Cow, Cow, Cow
> a lot of lines
> </P></BLOCKQUOTE>
>
> <p>boring stuff - we are not interested in this....</p>
>
> <BLOCKQUOTE><P>
> Chicken, Chicken, Chicken
> Chicken, Chicken, Chicken
> Chicken, Chicken, Chicken
> more lines
> </P></BLOCKQUOTE>
>
> <p>more boring stuff - we are not interested in this....</p>
>
> <BLOCKQUOTE><P>
> Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit
>
> </P></BLOCKQUOTE>
>
> <p>even more boring stuff - we are not interested in this....</p>
>
> <BLOCKQUOTE><P>
> Pig, Pig, Pig, Pig, Pig
> </P></BLOCKQUOTE>
>
> --
>
> I want to return all the stuff between <BLOCKQUOTE><P> ... </P></BLOCKQUOTE>
> in an array. One element per match. For example, for the above text, I would
> like to get back an array back like this:
>
> array(
> "Cow, Cow, Cow, Cow, Cow Cow, Cow, Cow, Cow, Cow Cow, Cow, Cow, Cow, Cow a
> lot of lines",
> "Chicken, Chicken, Chicken Chicken, Chicken, Chicken Chicken, Chicken,
> Chicken more lines",
> "Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit",
> "Pig, Pig, Pig, Pig, Pig"
> )
>
> I have been trying to do this with (many variations of) the following code:
>
> --
>
> <?PHP
>
> // open file
> $fd = fopen ("./text.htm", "r");
>
> // load contents into a variable
> while (!feof ($fd))
> {
> $content .= fgets($fd, 4096);
> }
>
> // close file
> fclose ($fd);
>
> // remove char returns and co.
> $content = preg_replace("/(\r\n)|(\n\r)|(\n|\r)/", " ",$content);
>
> // match agains regex -- this does not work correctly....
> if
> (preg_match("/<BLOCKQUOTE><P>(.*)<\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>/i",$content,$matches))
> {
> echo "<pre>";
> var_dump($matches);
> echo "</pre>";
> }
>
> ?>
>
> --
>
> For the above, var_dump() returns this:
>
> --
>
> array(2) {
> [0]=>
> string(556) "<BLOCKQUOTE><P> Cow, Cow, Cow, Cow, Cow Cow, Cow, Cow, Cow,
> Cow Cow, Cow, Cow, Cow, Cow a lot of lines </P></BLOCKQUOTE> <p>boring
> stuff - we are not interested in this....</p> <BLOCKQUOTE><P> Chicken,
> Chicken, Chicken Chicken, Chicken, Chicken Chicken, Chicken, Chicken more
> lines </P></BLOCKQUOTE> <p>more boring stuff - we are not interested in
> this....</p> <BLOCKQUOTE><P> Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit
> </P></BLOCKQUOTE> <p>even more boring stuff - we are not interested in
> this....</p> <BLOCKQUOTE><P> Pig, Pig, Pig, Pig, Pig </P></BLOCKQUOTE>"
> [1]=>
> string(524) " Cow, Cow, Cow, Cow, Cow Cow, Cow, Cow, Cow, Cow Cow, Cow,
> Cow, Cow, Cow a lot of lines </P></BLOCKQUOTE> <p>boring stuff - we are not
> interested in this....</p> <BLOCKQUOTE><P> Chicken, Chicken, Chicken
> Chicken, Chicken, Chicken Chicken, Chicken, Chicken more lines
> </P></BLOCKQUOTE> <p>more boring stuff - we are not interested in
> this....</p> <BLOCKQUOTE><P> Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit
> </P></BLOCKQUOTE> <p>even more boring stuff - we are not interested in
> this....</p> <BLOCKQUOTE><P> Pig, Pig, Pig, Pig, Pig "
> }
>
> --
>
> Clearly not what I want.
>
> Is my approach here incorrect? Or is it indeed possible to construct a regex
> to do what I want (with just one pass of the text)?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> :-))
>
> S.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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