How would I write a php preg_match() in php to pick out the 250 value. I have a large string of html code that I want to pick the 250 out of and I can't seem to get the regular expression right.
This is the html pattern I want to match - note that I want to extract the integer where the 250 is:
<span class="price-ld">H$250</span>
I have been trying for hours to do this and I can't get it to work lol
preg_match('/<span class="price-ld">H$(\d+)<\/span>/i', $your_html, $matches);
print "Its ".$matches[1]." USD";
The regex actually depends on your code. Where are you exactly searching for?
class="price-ld"//get the title of the product preg_match('/<title>(.*)<\/title>/i', $candidate[0], $title); $p_title = $title[1];//get the price of the product preg_match('/<span class="price-ld">H$(\d+)<\/span>/i', $candidate[0], $price); $p_price = $price[1]; echo $p_price;
title tag. Maybe you need some whitespace tolerance. Minify your regexp like /class="price-ld"\s*>\s*H$(\d+)/. Anyway this forces no more HTML comment to be inbetween the tag content and that class. It depends on the page you want to screen scrape what kind of parsing you can take. You should post an excerpt somewhere (pastebin.com)This is the regex you're looking for:
(?<=<span class="price-ld">H\$)\d+(?=</span>)
You can see the results here.
And here's the explanation:
Options: case insensitive; ^ and $ match at line breaks
Assert that the regex below can be matched, with the match ending at this position (positive lookbehind) «(?<=<span class="price-ld">H\$)»
Match the characters “<span class="price-ld">H” literally «<span class="price-ld">H»
Match the character “$” literally «\$»
Match a single digit 0..9 «\d+»
Between one and unlimited times, as many times as possible, giving back as needed (greedy) «+»
Assert that the regex below can be matched, starting at this position (positive lookahead) «(?=</span>)»
Match the characters “</span>” literally «span>»
