On Tuesday 18 November 2003 00:03, Chris Hayes wrote:
> At 15:07 17-11-03, you wrote:
> >I have a code that should fetch the information from another webpage. The
> >code find's the page, but I can't make it stop on </table> sign.
> >
> >preg_match("|<tr class=\"listRow2\"><td class=\"listRow2\"><span
> >class=\"listIndex\">1.+\<\/table\>|is", $buffer, $regs );
>
> It probably looks for the last table tag. Is that so? Then you need to tell
> the script in a modifier that it should not be greedy (not my terminology,
> but the regexp term for this). The modifiers are the letters after the
> patern itself, in your example the i (do not make a difference between
> capital and small letters) and s ( I think: ignore line breaks). Try adding
> a U for making it non greedy. If that does not help check the docs on 'non
> greedy'.
Also, characters are being escaped unecessarily. The "table" fragment should
probably be simply:
</table>
ie no need to escape the forward slash (/) and the greater-than sign (>).
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