finding pattern with preg_match_all

Determining the pattern below has got my stumped.

I have a page of HTML and need to find all occurrences of the following
pattern:

score=9999999999&

The number shown can be 5-10 characters in length. I would like to extract
only the number, stripping off the "score=" and "&".

I have tried the following without success:

preg_match_all("|score=(\d{5,10})&|is", $html, $out);

The page includes numerous occurrences of the pattern yet the $out array
only contains two items with both values equaling "array".

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Han wrote:

> preg_match_all("|score=(\d{5,10})&|is", $html, $out);
>
> The page includes numerous occurrences of the pattern yet the $out
> array only contains two items with both values equaling "array".

Well, your regex works. (Note that the s modifier in your pattern
is superfluous, as it only affects dot metacharacters.)

But $out is an array containing two arrays. That is, an array of
arrays. $out[0] is an array of full pattern matches; $out[1] is an
array of first parenthesized subpattern matches. To access just
the numbers, you might use:

foreach($out[1] as $number)
echo $number;

You can set flags in preg_match_all that change how the arrays are
filled.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/functio...-match-all.php

--
Jock

Yes, that makes perfect sense.

I'm quite familiar with php.net (couldn't survive without in fact), but I
began to doubt my syntax when the right number of results didn't seem to
appear. My regexp was working all along, but I wasn't outputting it
correctly (dumb!)

Sigh. Thanks for the clarification.

"John Dunlop" <john+usenet@johndunlop.info> wrote in message
news:MPG.19e8885e1eb54b91989774@news.freeserve.net ...
> Han wrote:
>
> > preg_match_all("|score=(\d{5,10})&amp;|is", $html, $out);
> >
> > The page includes numerous occurrences of the pattern yet the $out
> > array only contains two items with both values equaling "array".
>
> Well, your regex works. (Note that the s modifier in your pattern
> is superfluous, as it only affects dot metacharacters.)
>
> But $out is an array containing two arrays. That is, an array of
> arrays. $out[0] is an array of full pattern matches; $out[1] is an
> array of first parenthesized subpattern matches. To access just
> the numbers, you might use:
>
> foreach($out[1] as $number)
> echo $number;
>
> You can set flags in preg_match_all that change how the arrays are
> filled.
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/functio...-match-all.php
>
> --
> Jock

Han wrote:
[...]
> My regexp was working all along, but I wasn't outputting it
> correctly (dumb!)

When debugging arrays I find the construct

<?php
echo '<pre>'; print_r($array); echo '</pre>';
?>

very enlightning.


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"Pedro" <hexkid@hotpop.com> wrote in message
news:blmn00$dt4kq$1@ID-203069.news.uni-berlin.de...
> Han wrote:
> [...]
> > My regexp was working all along, but I wasn't outputting it
> > correctly (dumb!)
>
> When debugging arrays I find the construct
>
> <?php
> echo '<pre>'; print_r($array); echo '</pre>';
> ?>
>
> very enlightning.

I agree but I also use the fancy_vardump function from the user contributed
notes on php.net for var_dump. It's a lot better at displaying the contents
of arrays. If I get really bogged down I open up phpEd and step-thru the
code and examine the arrays as they're being used.

Paulus