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My target HTML output has values between a th and td pair of tags for which I am using this pattern which works very good
preg_match_all("/<th class=\"bel\">[\/\(\)-:<>\w\s]+<\/th>[\/\(\)-:<>\w\s]+<td class=\"value\">[\/\(\)-:<>\w\s\$\.]*<\/td>/",$cnt,$mat2);
and fetch out all information. but sometimes for one <td></td> pair an optional URL also comes and in that case my regex fails to fetch that URL value... the html looks like
<th class="bel">label</th>
<td class="value"><ul>
<li>
<a
href="http://www.example.com/string/string.html"
title="title here"
>
URL name</a>
</li>
</ul>
</td>
this <ul><li> </li></ul> code is optional, it appears in some pages and have a simple string in some pages
for the string value my regex works but if it has the URL within list items then my regext doesn't read it. I have tried many patterns including the following
preg_match_all("/<th class=\"bel\">[\/\(\)-:<>\w\s]+<\/th>[\/\(\)-:<>\w\s]+<td class=\"value\">[\/\(\)-:<>\w\s\$\.](<ul><li>)?[\/\(\)-:<>\w\s\$\.]*(<\/li><\/ul>)?<\/td>/",$cnt,$mat2);
can anybody help me please how to read this optional URL?
thank you
[edited by: eelixduppy at 2:27 pm (utc) on Sep. 4, 2007]
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