Posted by McHenry on 10/10/41 11:51

"Rik" <luiheidsgoeroe@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ab90a$449fde69$8259c69c$10096@news1.tudelft.nl...
> McHenry wrote:
>> Why could we not simply have used as this is what I tried and it
>> didn't work ?
>> <h3>.*?(?P<field2>[0-9\.,]*).*?</h3>
>
> 1. It matches a single dot or comma, not desired.
> 2. It matches 'nothing' (* = 0 or more)
>
> In <h3>.*?(?P<field2>[0-9]+[0-9\.,]*).*?</h3>, we use [0-9]+ to say: once
> you have found at least 1 number, and maybe more, capture all numbers,
> comma's and dot's.
>
> Grtz,
> --
> Rik Wasmus
>
>

Thanks Rik, I understand the difference... wow are these things normally
easy to follow or always this heard ?

I have a regex, that performs three captures of three prices, it works when
all three are present and numeric however if one is missing or listed as POA
or similar then all three fail. Can this be overcome or do I need three
seperate preg_match statements ?

Thanks in advance...

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