[Solved] RegEx Help!

[Ned]

I am working on a little autoit script for the website gasbuddy. I need my script to grab recenty reported prices. I am new to using RegEx, and I'm having problems with it. I have spent hours trying to figure this out and only wanted to post if it was my last resort. It seems to work when I paste the code into this RegEx Generator with '\d.\d*(?=\Q<br />\E)' as my pattern, but never in my script when using _IEBodyGrabHTML. Here is the HTML code that it is working with (wouldn't post within

correctly). The numbers I am trying to pull are located in the "Members Favorites" box under the input boxes for the 7-11 station.

At first I thought that maybe the html was to much for autoit, so I split it down to the code below using the _StringBetween, but still no success. Below is my autoit code for this:

#include <IE.au3>
#include <String.au3>
#include <Array.au3>
$IE = _IECreate ("http://www.tampagasprices.com/ReportGasPrices.aspx","",1)
$ReportHTML = _IEBodyReadHTML ($IE) 
$HTML = String($ReportHTML)
$HTML = _StringBetween ($HTML, "ctl00$Content$FPI$rrFavs$ctl01$txtDataID", "tl00$Content$FPI$rrFavs$ctl02$ddlTimeSpotted2")
$HTMLString = String($HTML[0])
$Array = StringRegExp($HTMLString, '\d.\d*(?=\Q<br />\E)', 1, 0)
_ArrayDisplay($Array)
Exit

Edited May 27, 2011 by Ned

[Ned]

Sorry for double post, edit button is not there for some reason...

Anyways, working on this some more, I noticed that when autoit fetches the HTML, it is a little different (<br /> in chrome is <BR> in autoit/IE). So I modified the code acordingly, it now grabs the price, but only the 1st price. There up to 4 (3 on example page) that it needs to grab. Any help with this?

Updated Code:

#include <IE.au3>
#include <String.au3>
#include <Array.au3>
$IE = _IECreate ("http://dl.dropbox.com/u/188331/HTML.htm","",1)
$ReportHTML = _IEBodyReadHTML ($IE) 
$HTML = String($ReportHTML)
$Array = StringRegExp($HTML, '\d.\d*(?=\Q<BR>\E)', 1, 0)
_ArrayDisplay($Array)
Exitt

Edited May 27, 2011 by Ned

[Realm]

Hello Ned,

Its not that AutoIt fetches the data differently...Its that the browswers grab the data differently.

If you take note from the helpfile with _IEBodyGrabHTML() and other similar IE functions, they are utilizing Internet Explorer, thus the reason it requires you to have IE 4 or better installed. Try grabbing the source from an IE browser for your testing rather than Chrome which does show the source code differently then IE or Firefox or most other browsers.

Realm

[PsaltyDS]

...Chrome which does show the source code differently then IE or Firefox or most other browsers.

In addition, the client browser reports its identity to the server in headers and server-side scripts can return different HTML to the client based on that and other information.

[Ned]

I got it figured out. It was between the HTML being different and the RegEx mode. Had it on 1 (only returning 1st found value), then tried the others, with 3 working (returning all values found). I do not understand why 1 did not work, but nonetheless my script is working.