Simple Regex Help

Hi,

I cam accross this regex pattern:

<TAGb[^>]*>(.*?)</TAG>

I want to grab titles from websites, so I edited to get:

<titleb[^>]*>(.*?)</title>

Could anyone please explain why it doesn't work?

Thanks.

(Note: The forum won't let me put backslashes, there should be one before the "b")

What you're looking for is this:
$pattern = '<title>(.+)</title>';

Might want to make sure that you set preg_match (or whatever you're using) to being case-insensitive.

Hm I just tried that, and I still only get Array ( )

the pattern should have delimiters, i.e:

$pattern='#<title>(.+)</title>#';


And this pattern won't let the <title> have any attributes, for example:
<title id="theid">
won't match, is that an issue?
showing your code is always helpful...

Title has attributes? I just need to match the basic HTML <title> tag.

Example:

<title>This is my website</title>

The pattern should return (When array is printed):

This is my website

But it doesn't.

Like GJay said, for the most part:

$page_content = file_get_contents('MyPage.php');
$pattern = '/(<title>)(.+?)(<\/title>)/i';
preg_match($pattern,$page_content,$matches);

echo "The title tag content is: ".$matches[2];

Hi chump,

Thanks for your help, but I tried your code by itself and I get an error on your preg_match line. You missed off a ; but I still get the error after I corrected it. :S

Hi chump,

Thanks for your help, but I tried your code by itself and I get an error on your preg_match line. You missed off a ; but I still get the error after I corrected it. :S

Sorry about the semi-colon...I added that in, and it works fine now for me...what error are you getting?

Ah, it seems I had saved the script to my C:\ whereas I was uploaded the old script thinking I had updated it :D lol the script works, thank you :)