Preg_match and Preg_replace trouble regular expressions Please HELP!

[stoppal]

need to extract all text between the following strings, but not
include the strings.
"<!-- #BeginEditable "Title name" -->"
"<p align="center"> #### </p>"
I am using preg_match(???? , $s, $results)
but I have had no success. I tried items like.. "<!-- #BeginEditable
"Title name" -->".*."<p align="center"> #### </p>"
But have had no luck.
Please any assistenc is appreciated.
In addition, I need to use preg_replace to replace the following:
<a href="/folder2/folder1/folder/*page.html">
with
<a href="site.com= page.php?option *=paper&itemid= page.html">
Again, any help is appreciated. The regular expressions confuse me, my

brain is about to explode from all the trouble shooting, I guess I'm
just not smart emough to figure it out.
PLEASE HELP!!
thanks

[stoppal]

I was reviewing the code again, and correct me if I'm wrong, from what
I understand the current code only replaces.....

<a href="/folder2/folder1/folder/ page.html">

with

<a href="site.com= page.php?option =paper&itemid=p age.html">

if it's between each occurance of the preg_match.

I was trying to do two totally seperate items.

1) find one distinct pregmatch on a single page

2) replace links within a page

But as stated, they are totally independent.

If this simplifies matters, I can still use the help.

thanks again.

I've been working on this all morning, but am not having any luck.

thanks

[stoppal]

I decided to focus on one item at a time. This is what I have so far,
but I get the following error...

Warning: Unknown modifier '(' in /Users/imac/Sites/folder/test.php on
line 17

when using the following code....

<?php
// i find it easier to remember two calls to ini_set
//ini_set('error_ reporting', E_ALL);
// make sure they are displayed
ini_set('displa y_errors', TRUE);

//replace "news.htm" with your file
$s=implode('', file("http://www.site.com/test.php"));

$pattern="<!-- #BeginEditable \"Title of Firmrecall\" -->(.*?)<p
align=\"center\ ">#### </p>";
if(preg_match($ pattern, $s, $results)){

echo $results[0];

}
?>

[stoppal]

this is line 17

$pattern="<!-- #BeginEditable \"Title of Firmrecall\" -->(.*?)<p
align=\"center\ ">#### </p>";

[stoppal]

I'm begging for someone to help me out here. I've been working at this
non stop for the last for days, and I and not find a solution to my
problem.

This is the pattern I'm using to find everything between...

"<!-- #BeginEditable "Title of name" --> " AND "<p
align="center"> #### </p>"
$pattern="/<\!-- #BeginEditable \"Title of Firmrecall\" -->.*<p
align=\"center\ ">#### </p>/i";

But I get nothing.

PLEASE HELP!!!!

[John Dunlop]

Somebody wrote:

$pattern="/<\!-- #BeginEditable \"Title of Firmrecall\" -->.*<p
align=\"center\ ">#### </p>/i";

a) Encode/escape the slash in your pattern; e.g., /<\/p>/.

b) Use different delimiters; e.g., `...`.

[Just probing, but why have you set the i modifier?]

--
Jock

[stoppal]

I tried changing it, but still not luck, can you post what you mean?

I tried many varations, but my last was...

$pattern="'/<\!-- #BeginEditable \"Title of Firmrecall\" -->/.*/<p
align=\"center\ ">#### /<\/p>/'";

I had the i to make the text case insensitive, but it's really not
nessesary I guess.

[John Dunlop]

Somebody wrote:

$pattern="'/<\!-- #BeginEditable \"Title of Firmrecall\" -->/.*/<p
align=\"center\ ">#### /<\/p>/'";

$pattern="/<\!-- #BeginEditable \"Title of Firmrecall\"
-->.*<p align=\"center\ ">#### <\/p>/";

--
Jock

[stoppal]

still no luck, so I decided to take it one piece at a time and find out
which part it the problem.

I think it might have some thing to do with "<"

I tried

preg_match("/<h.t/", "<hat", $results)
echo $results[0];

and it did not work.

I changed it to...
preg_match("/h.t/", "hat", $results)
echo $results[0];

and it did work. So I thought ok just escape the "<" character with..
preg_match("/\<h.t/", "<hat", $results)
echo $results[0];

but no luck, any ideas why?

thanks

[John Dunlop]

Somebody wrote:

preg_match("/\<h.t/", "<hat", $results)
echo $results[0];

but no luck, any ideas why?

Sure, you're relying on your browser to tell you the results
and it's hiding them from you. Your browser likely interprets
the string '<hat' as the beginning of a tag. Look at the
source and see what results you actually get.

--
Jock

[stoppal]

OK, I'm getting closer but still having trouble.

does any one know why the preg_match stops the match if the string goes
to the next line.

for example....

//replace "news.htm" with your file
$s=implode('',
file("http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/perrigo07_05.ht ml"));

//echo $s;

preg_match("/\"Title of Firmrecall\".*/",$s,$resul t);

echo $result[0];

displays....
"Title of Firmrecall" The following is the title and

When it should be
"Title of Firmrecall" The following is the title and
this is the next line of the title.
But the "this is the next line of the title" and everything after it
does not get displayed.

PLEASE HELP!!! I've been working at this non stop but can not get it
working, I'm disperate!!!