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-
img src=http://www.yahoo.com;
here's the pattern I've been trying-
-- 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';
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nope, not quite...
Here's what I've got-
$pattern='/\bsrc=([\'|])([^\1])*[\1]/im';
the string that's coming
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
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-- SNIP --
If single-quoting (better, if you don't
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
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 lsquo; '
right single quote rsquo; '
--snip--
Thaddeus
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