--- Bob Sawyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In the following regex, what does the "si" do?
>
> preg_match("'<$itemtag url=(.*?) />'si")
The "i" says that the Regular Expression should ignore capitalization in the
match string. The "s" allows a match to span multiple lines. Normally the
RegEx engine stops when it finds a newline character.
> As I wrote last night, I'm trying to parse the attributes of the
> "enclosure" tag from an RSS feed. The tag looks like this:
>
> <enclosure url="foo.com" length="12345" type="audio/mpeg" />
>
> The regex above gives me:
>
> url="foo.com" length="12345" type="audio/mpeg"
>
> However, all I want is the contents of the URL attribute:
>
> foo.com
>
> How do I write the regex above to do that?
It seems to me that you might have better success using some of the XML parser
classes for this purpose. Your technique is dependent on items being in a
precisely consistent order. One change on the part of the XML source and your
script won't work anymore.
James
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