help with regexp pattern

[mariasx]

I would like to extract SRC value from IMG tag.

regexp patern is:

"src=(.*?) .*?>"

this regexp pattern match:

<img src="/Client.Images/Society/facebook.gif" alt="" />

<img src="/Client.Images/Society/facebook.gif" alt=""/>

<img src="/Client.Images/Society/facebook.gif" />

this regexp patern do not match when SRC is last value and space character is missing before tag is closed:

<img src="/Client.Images/Society/facebook.gif"/>

thanks for help

Edited October 17, 2009 by mariasx

[Gabriel13]

It looks like this should work:

msgbox(0,default,stringRegExp('<img src="/Client.Images/Society/facebook.gif"/>','src="(.*)".*>')) ; returns 1 (true)

…with the added benefit that it removes the quotes from the captured value, too.

[BugFix]

Or so:

$str = '<img src="/Client.Images/Society/facebook.gif"/>'
$pattern = '(<img src=")([^"]*)(.+)'

ConsoleWrite('src=' & StringRegExpReplace($str, $pattern, '$2') & @CRLF)

[mariasx]

It looks like this should work:

msgbox(0,default,stringRegExp('<img src="/Client.Images/Society/facebook.gif"/>','src="(.*)".*>')) ; returns 1 (true)

…with the added benefit that it removes the quotes from the captured value, too.

Gabriel, this is great. Thanx.

I did not want remove quotes, because quotes are missing on some websites: <img src=facebook.gif>

And one more benefit for me: Till today I did not know that apostrofe could be used instead of quotes. Great. Thanx

[mariasx]

Or so:

$str = '<img src="/Client.Images/Society/facebook.gif"/>'
$pattern = '(<img src=")([^"]*)(.+)'

ConsoleWrite('src=' & StringRegExpReplace($str, $pattern, '$2') & @CRLF)

BugFix, Your pattern looking pretty difficult. I have to learn hard.

Thank you.

[BugFix]

For better learning i'll comment it:

$pattern = '(<img src=")([^"]*)(.+)'

By working with StringRegExpReplace you need in most cases backreferences. Backreferences are created by using round brackets.

(<img src=") <== the first backreference - unneed later

([^"]*) <== the second backreference (every char that NOT ", any times) - we need

(.+) <== the third backreference (any char, any times) - unneed later

Replace value: '$2' <== it means, that string will replaced with second backreference