php question

[JDog]

i'm a php programmer, just never really messed with regular expressions. now i'm running into a problem I'm trying to creat a regular expression that will read a line of text from a file and if it has href=someurl. But nothing is working. here is what I hvae so far.

preg_match("/href='(.*)'/", $testing, $testing2); 

but doesn't seem to work if the $testing variable has:

$testing "<a href=james.com>" 

Thanks in advance for any help

jDoG

[com]

Go to google and lookup the Tao of Regular Expressions, or go buy Mastering Regular Expressions... or steal it.

[jwerd]

Well, I'd do this a little differently:

<?php
//Something.txt will contain something needed in the search//

$fp = @fopen("something.txt", "r");
while($buffer = fread($fp, 1024))
{
if(strstr($buffer, "something"))
{
echo " I found something, $buffer! ";
} else {
die()
}

again, I am kind of tired so I am not sure if this will work because I haven't tested it - have no way of testing it - and again, I am sleepy... but if that is something that will help you, USE IT!

Peace

[Jimbo]

"/href=[\"' ]?([^\"' >]+)[\"' ]?[^>]*>/i"

try this

[JDog]

Originally posted by Jimbo
"/href=[\"' ]?([^\"' >]+)[\"' ]?[^>]*>/i"

try this

thanx man!
worked fucking great!

jDoG