preg match help needed

[joshm]

Hi, I am having a hell of a time trying to do this preg_match expression. Let me explain the scenario...

<hr size=1 color=black>z1 <a href="/index_1_z_2.html">z2</a> <a href="/index_1_z_3.html">z3</a> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=test>

Now, from the above code I want to grab z3

I have this:

preg_match('~<hr size=1 color=black>(.*)\.html">(.*)</a> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=test>~i',$category_page,$num_of_pages);

I am getting an undefined offset error so must be doing it wrong. I want to grab z3 which is the second (.*)

Any help much appreciated! Thanks.

[PHP_Chimp]

Have you tried -

echo '<pre>';
print_r($num_of_pages);
echo '</pre>';

to see what you are actually capturing with that regex?

[joshm]

It turned out that code was actually correct. It was some other function causing the problem.