preg_match("Results <b>([0-9]+)</b> - <b>([0-9]+)</b> of about <b>([0-9]+)</b>.
Search took <b>([0-9]+)</b> seconds.",$string, $hits);
$hits[1], $hits[2], $hits[3], $hits[4] will contain your numbers
Henry wrote:
>Yes
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>But that the string is contained within a much bigger string as well
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>I want to search for the follwong string but with wild cards for the numeric
>values and I would like to know the values as well.
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>"Results <b>$1</b> - <b>$2</b> of about <b>$3</b>. Search took <b>$4</b>
>seconds."
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>Where all the $'s are numeric values
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>Henry
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>"Timothy J Hitchens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>001001c26c2a$927a9ad0$0500a8c0@BAMBINO">news:001001c26c2a$927a9ad0$0500a8c0@BAMBINO...
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>>Are you saying you want to be able to extract the numbers etc?
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>>Timothy Hitchens (HiTCHO)
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>HiTCHO has Spoken!
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Henry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Saturday, 5 October 2002 2:36 PM
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: [PHP] Findng a pattern
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>>
>>Dear All,
>>
>>Excuse my ignorance but I'm STILL a newbie to this aspect of PHP.
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>>$str="Results <b>1</b> - <b>10</b> of about <b>14</b>. Search took
>><b>0.04</b> seconds."
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>>I would like to look for the string above in a buffer of text. However I
>>would like to find it even if the numeric are different. Furthermore I
>>would like to know what the values are. Is there a simple way to do
>>this?
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>>TIA
>>
>>Henry
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