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hello there. I'm into parsing a web page.
i have this sequence in a web page I retrieved through curl occurring several times:
<a class="nameholder" href="/en/citizen/profile/123456">name</a>
what I would like is to get an associative array consisting of:
$myarr[123456] = "name"
$myarr[3456] = "name2"
etc
where the numbers vary, and can be any number from 1 to millions, and name might be any alphanumerical characters, max 30 chars long.
how would be the best way to do this? I have the whole html in one variable.
the rest of the html is unimportant to me and will be dropped after this data collection.
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Posted 14 March 2009 - 06:48 AM
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Posted 14 March 2009 - 07:02 AM
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Your pattern should be like this:
Which will give you 3 vars - classname, href and anchor text value. You can then split the second variable by "/" and take the last value, making it a key to the array.
Note: That regex is untested....
/\<a class=\"(.*?)\" href=\"(.*?)\"\>(*.?)\<\/a\>/is
Which will give you 3 vars - classname, href and anchor text value. You can then split the second variable by "/" and take the last value, making it a key to the array.
Note: That regex is untested....
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Posted 14 March 2009 - 08:51 AM
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I got it working by this regular expression:
#<a class="nameholder" href="/en/citizen/profile/([0-9]+?)">(.+?)</a>#then I ran it in preg_match_all and it put it in an array...
