need help parsing website with cURL / preg_match

[Aaron]

How do I save the data from a web site so I can parse it using curl?
Here is what I have so far:

$url="www.test.com";

$post_data = array();
$post_data['var1'] = "val1";
$post_data['var2'] = "val2";

$o="";
foreach($post_data as $k=>$v)
{
$o.= "$k=".utf8_encode($v)."&";
}

$post_data=substr($o,0,-1);

$ch= curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER,0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_data);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

$parttern="/<TABLE>(.*)<\/TABLE>/";
@preg_match($pattern, ????????????????, $matches);
print_r($matches[1]);

What would I use for the preg_match?

[Aaron]

On Mar 22, 1:06 pm, "Aaron" <[e-mail]:

How do I save the data from a web site so I can parse it using curl?
Here is what I have so far:

$url="www.test.com";

$post_data = array();
$post_data['var1'] = "val1";
$post_data['var2'] = "val2";

$o="";
foreach($post_data as $k=>$v)
{
$o.= "$k=".utf8_encode($v)."&";

}

$post_data=substr($o,0,-1);

$ch= curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER,0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_data);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

$parttern="/<TABLE>(.*)<\/TABLE>/";
@preg_match($pattern, ????????????????, $matches);
print_r($matches[1]);

What would I use for the preg_match?

Figured it out.
I was missing the following line:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

$result now contains data from web page.