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Posted by Du on 05/27/05 16:01
> You're a legend in your own time :-)
hahaha .... :D
i'm glad that it works !!!
"Mike M" <mike@nospam.mak.co.nz> wrote in message
news:4296d6bf@news.maxnet.co.nz...
> Hi Du
>
> Du wrote:
>
>> sorry, i should have read your question more carefully
>> i thot you wanted the first <input>
>>
>> try this then
>>
>> $LS_LOOK_FOR_MASK='!<[^<]*?\sname="item_1".*?>!' ;
>
> You're a legend in your own time :-)
>
> Thanks for that, it works perfectly !
>
> Mike
>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Du" <vietquest@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:mZmdndeH6oMdGgvfRVn-gw@mycybernet.net...
>>> try this
>>>
>>> // $LS_LOOK_FOR_MASK='!<[^/].*?\sname="item_1".*?>!' ;
>>>
>>> instead of .*? at the end ..... use [^>]*?
>>>
>>> $LS_LOOK_FOR_MASK='!<[^/].*?\sname="item_1"[^>]*?>!' ;
>>>
>>>
>>> i haven't test it out yet ... try it out, if it doesn't work let me
>>> know
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Mike M" <mike@nospam.mak.co.nz> wrote in message
>>> news:429674e2@news.maxnet.co.nz...
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to extract from a line of HTML individual tags, using the
>>>> "name"
>>>> attribute to determine which tag to extract. What I'm getting seems to
>>>> be a
>>>> greedy match which isn't what I'm looking for.
>>>>
>>>> // source html line with rubbish tag for testing purposes
>>>> $LS_HTML_LINE='<input type="text" value="456=tre" width=5 name="item_2"
>>>> blah=wer checked id="abc" />This is not to be included</a><input
>>>> type="checkbox" value="123=tre" name="item_1" checked />' ;
>>>> // regular expression to use
>>>> $LS_LOOK_FOR_MASK='!<[^/].*?\sname="item_1".*?>!' ;
>>>> // run the regular expression
>>>> preg_match($LS_LOOK_FOR, $LS_HTML_LINE, $LA_ALL_TAGS) ;
>>>> // lets see what we've got
>>>> print_r($LA_ALL_TAGS) ;
>>>>
>>>> Array
>>>> (
>>>> [0] => <input type="text" value="456=tre" width=5 name="item_2"
>>>> blah=wer
>>>> checked id="abc" />This is not to be included</a><input type="checkbox"
>>>> value="123=tre" name="item_1" checked />
>>>> )
>>>>
>>>> This is not what I'm after, the desired result is :
>>>> <input type="checkbox" value="123=tre" name="item_1" checked />
>>>>
>>>> but when I do the same for item_2 I get the desired result
>>>>
>>>> $LS_LOOK_FOR_MASK='!<[^/].*?\sname="item_2".*?>!' ;
>>>> preg_match($LS_LOOK_FOR, $LS_HTML_LINE, $LA_ALL_TAGS) ;
>>>> print_r($LA_ALL_TAGS) ;
>>>> Array
>>>> (
>>>> [0] => <input type="text" value="456=tre" width=5 name="item_2"
>>>> blah=wer
>>>> checked id="abc" />
>>>> )
>>>>
>>>> This tells me that I'm missing something in the beginning of the
>>>> regular
>>>> expression, I've spent several hours hacking to no effect and Googling
>>>> without seeing anything that seems to be what I'm after.
>>>>
>>>> I think that it's time to throw this one out to those more proficient
>>>> with
>>>> regular expressions. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Mike
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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