Re: [PHP] Quotes in regular expressions

2003-08-21 Thread Scott Fletcher
That may be why! It's the htmlspecialchars() that is the issue.. The signle quote get convert into this, not sure if this apply to your situation though. --snip-- Reference : Special Characters in HTML left single quote ‘ ' right single quote ’ ' --snip-- "Thaddeus J. Quintin

Re: [PHP] Quotes in regular expressions

2003-08-21 Thread Thaddeus J. Quintin
The biggest part of my problem was that I had already called "htmlspecialchars" on the string, so there was no quotes to match! Duh. Even after I fixed that it was still turning into a hassle, so I just made two checks, one for single quotes, and, failing that, one for double quotes. not the

Re: [PHP] Quotes in regular expressions

2003-08-21 Thread Scott Fletcher
Try parsing it as a string where the double quote would become a string. See if that help. (Parse the whole characters into strings then find the double quote.) "Thaddeus J. Quintin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- SNIP -- > > If single-quoting (better, if you do

Re: [PHP] Quotes in regular expressions

2003-08-21 Thread Thaddeus J. Quintin
-- SNIP -- > If single-quoting (better, if you don't variable interpolation) you don't even need to escape the backslashes, so: > > $pattern = '/\bsrc=([\'|"])[^\1]*[\1]/im'; -- SNIP -- nope, not quite... Here's what I've got- $pattern='/\bsrc=([\'|"])([^\1])*[\1]/im'; the string that's comi

RE: [PHP] Quotes in regular expressions

2003-08-21 Thread Ford, Mike [LSS]
On 21 August 2003 17:03, Thaddeus J. Quintin wrote: > Lets say I'm trying to extract some data from an HTML > document. I want > to get the values of the 'src' attributes of various tags. > > For example- > http://www.yahoo.com";> > > here's the pattern I've been trying- > > /\bsrc=(['|"])[^\\

[PHP] Quotes in regular expressions

2003-08-21 Thread Thaddeus J. Quintin
Lets say I'm trying to extract some data from an HTML document. I want to get the values of the 'src' attributes of various tags. For example- http://www.yahoo.com";> here's the pattern I've been trying- /\bsrc=(['|"])[^\\1]*[\\1]/im Basically, match the 'src=' followed by some type of quote,