Help with Regexp

[wimhek]

I am havig troubles with regexp. I want to split html lines into an array. After some googeling i found an answer, here it is.

$sString = "<td>aap</td><td>noot</td><td>mies</td>"

$aReturn = StringRegExp($sString, '(?s)(?i)<td>(.*?)</td>', 3)

_arraydisplay($aReturn)

returns :

aap

noot

mies

Question, now is

$sString = "<td>aap</td><td class=e>noot</td><td>mies</td>"

What must be the regexp rule to get the same result ?

[Melba23]

wimhek,

Tell the RegEx that there may be other characters before the closing ">":

(?s)(?i)<td.*?>(.*?)</td>

That works for me on both your examples.

M23

[wimhek]

Thank You, i did the

.*? between () like this .

[dany]

Thank You, i did the

.*? between () like this .

Well, that'll create an extra entry in the returned array from StringRegExp. If you need that then cool, otherwise just drop the group.

Also, although Melba23's example is good and working,here's another variation:

(?s)(?i)<td[^>]*>(.*?)</td>

The character class will eat anything up until the first > it encounters. Melba's regexp works because the ? inverts the greediness of the * quantifier, thus stopping it at the first >. Without it it would basically eat the entire remaining string.