Im sorry for bein a complete numpty but none of the code Im writing is working. basically Im trying to get the last update from twitter without the gumf in it.
the code I write looks suthin like curl http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline/9407322.rss | grep --regexp="<description[^>]*>(.*)</description>" but I get no result If I grep it as usual then thecode I get is fine and uncludes all the details I need to extracct. lol.. should I just use php to pull out the stuff I dont want from the strings. thank in advance. sorry for bein a twit. im new at this. Shad. On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 11:51 +0000, toolskyn wrote: > It won't correctly match: > <tag><tag></tag></tag> > > Because of the lazy part, the first <tag> would match the first </ > tag>, wich is incorrect. I think it should be greedy, so: > <TAG[^>]*>(.*)</TAG> > should work better. > > Brian Cummiskey wrote: > > > > http://www.regular-expressions.info/regexbuddy/htmltagpair.html > > > > should do the trick > > > > > > > > Shadrik Easton wrote: > > > > > > Sorry about the off topic post but Im running out of options. > > > > > > quick question then: I need to use a regular expression to > extract some > > > text from between to tags. these tags being < description > and > > > < /description > > > > > > > for eg < description >This is some random text < /desription > > > > > > > I would need the 'This is some random text' part returned.. any > ideas? > > > thanks people and once again. sorry for the OT. > > > > > > Shad. > > > > > > > > > > > > >
