That may be why! It's the htmlspecialchars() that is the issue.. The
signle quote get convert into this, not sure if this apply to your situation
though.
--snip--
Reference : Special Characters in HTML
left single quote ‘ '
right single quote ’ '
--snip--
"Thaddeus J. Quintin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> The biggest part of my problem was that I had already called
> "htmlspecialchars" on the string, so there was no quotes to match!
>
> Duh.
>
> Even after I fixed that it was still turning into a hassle, so I just
> made two checks, one for single quotes, and, failing that, one for
> double quotes.
>
> not the prettiest answer, but I put good comments around it!
>
> Thaddeus
>
> Scott Fletcher wrote:
>
> > Try parsing it as a string where the double quote would become a string.
> > See if that help. (Parse the whole characters into strings then find
the
> > double quote.)
> >
> > "Thaddeus J. Quintin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >>-- SNIP --
> >> > If single-quoting (better, if you don't variable interpolation) you
> >>don't even need to escape the backslashes, so:
> >> >
> >> > $pattern = '/\bsrc=([\'|"])[^\1]*[\1]/im';
> >>-- SNIP --
> >>
> >>nope, not quite...
> >>Here's what I've got-
> >>
> >>$pattern='/\bsrc=([\'|"])([^\1])*[\1]/im';
> >>
> >>the string that's coming in is-
> >><IMG SRC="http://www.mydomain.net/templates/images/somepicture.gif";
> >>ALT="letter" BORDER="0" ALIGN="CENTER">
> >>
> >>That's no newline or anything like that within the code (even with the
> >>'m' option, i've had previous problems with that before), and I can
> >>simplify the expression and grab everything including the quotes, so I'm
> >>really not sure what's failing.
> >>
> >>Thanks-
> >>Thaddeus
> >>
> >>Ford, Mike [LSS] wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>On 21 August 2003 17:03, Thaddeus J. Quintin wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Lets say I'm trying to extract some data from an HTML
> >>>>document. I want
> >>>>to get the values of the 'src' attributes of various tags.
> >>>>
> >>>>For example-
> >>>><img src="http://www.yahoo.com";>
> >>>>
> >>>>here's the pattern I've been trying-
> >>>>
> >>>>/\bsrc=(['|"])[^\\1]*[\\1]/im
> >>>>
> >>>>Basically, match the 'src=' followed by some type of quote, followed
> >>>>by stuff that's not the quote originally matched, followed by
> >>>>the same quote.
> >>>>
> >>>>But, obviously, I can't run this, because the quotes in the pattern
> >>>>close off the string I'm trying to create.
> >>>>
> >>>>Are there ways of working with quotes?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Just escape the quote like you've escaped the backslashes.
> >>>
> >>>If double-quoting:
> >>>
> >>> $pattern = "/\bsrc=(['|\"])[^\\1]*[\\1]/im";
> >>>
> >>>If single-quoting (better, if you don't variable interpolation) you
> >
> > don't even need to escape the backslashes, so:
> >
> >>> $pattern = '/\bsrc=([\'|"])[^\1]*[\1]/im';
> >>>
> >>>Cheers!
> >>>
> >>>Mike
> >>>
> >>>---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>Mike Ford, Electronic Information Services Adviser,
> >>>Learning Support Services, Learning & Information Services,
> >>>JG125, James Graham Building, Leeds Metropolitan University,
> >>>Beckett Park, LEEDS, LS6 3QS, United Kingdom
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> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
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