Posted by McHenry on 06/26/06 10:59

I would like a regex for the following html snippet:

<h2>Field1</h2>

<h3>

$123,456.78 - $987,654.32

</h3>

I would like to capture Field1 and the first numeric value only.

I have created the following that works somewhat:
$pattern='%<h2>(?P<field1>.*?)</h2>
.*?
<h3>.*?\$(?P<field2>.*?)\s.*?</h3>
%six';
However I would like to improve field2's capture to be the first series of
numbers after <h3> excluding the thousand seperator and stop the capture as
soon as a non numeric is encountered other than the decimal point, I cannot
depend on the dollar sign always being present, so in this case I'd capture
123456.78

Thanks in advance...

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