PHP preg_match / regex question

[ghandi69_]

Ok guys...

I grabbed some html code using the following command...

$content = file_get_contents('http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/dunnad01.shtml');

I am trying to grab all the text between "162 Game Avg" and the closest "</tr>" that follows it.

I'm basically using prag_match($pattern, $content, $match), but have been trying for quite some time now with no luck.

Would anyone be willing to view the source code of the above link... do a search for 162 Game Avg to see the portion of the page I'm looking at... and maybe give a few pointers?

Thanks for your time,

[steeldriver]

are you trying to match across multiple lines? if so then I think you will need the 's' modifier

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2240348/php-preg-replace-regex-that-matches-multiple-lines

http://php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.modifiers.php

[spjackson]

How about


<?php
$content = file_get_contents('http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/dunnad01.shtml');

if (preg_match('#(162 Game Avg)(.*?)(</tr>)#s', $content, $matches)) {
echo $matches[2];
}
else {
echo "not found\n";
}
?>
The s modifier at the end allows the dot to match newlines. The (.*?) does a non greedy match so that we stop at the first </tr>. There's more to do if you want to make it case insensitive etc.

[ghandi69_]

How about


<?php
$content = file_get_contents('http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/dunnad01.shtml');

if (preg_match('#(162 Game Avg)(.*?)(</tr>)#s', $content, $matches)) {
echo $matches[2];
}
else {
echo "not found\n";
}
?>
The s modifier at the end allows the dot to match newlines. The (.*?) does a non greedy match so that we stop at the first </tr>. There's more to do if you want to make it case insensitive etc.

Thanks I will give that a try.

I ended up doing a work around that isn't as clean but was able to give me the functionality I was looking for. I still need to learn Regex though so I will be trying to understand the code you provided. Here is what I ended up doing.


public function Player($name, $url){

$this->name = $name;
$content = file_get_contents($url);
$matches = explode("\n", $content);
$num = count($matches);
$marker;
for($i=0; $i < $num; $i++){
if(strpos($matches[$i], "162 Game Avg")){
$marker = $i;
}
}