Preg match issue

[turbohost]

Hi guys,

I'm having an issue with preg_match. This is the script I'm running.

preg_match('/\<p align=\"left\"\>\<b\>(.+?)&nbsp/ims',$contents,$cis);
$name = $cis[0];
$name = trim($name);

However, when I echo $name, it also shows the stuff before (<p align="left"><b>) and after (&nbsp) the (.+?). I can use a str_replace to remove this html code but I don't think this is normal behavior for a preg_match. Anyone knows how to solve this issue?

Turbo

[turbohost]

Can someone help me with this one please?

[g1smd]

Place parentheses inside the pattern for what you want to match and the result will be in $cis[1] I think.

[phranque]

$cis[0] is supposed to contain the entire matched pattern.

[turbohost]

Thanks phranque, it works now ;-)

[g1smd]

So what did you change?

[turbohost]

I changed the $cis[0] into $cis[1]. $cis[0] gave me the full match including the parse criteria. $cis[1] just returns the parsed result. Example: I'm looking for the text 'top' in '#*$!topyyy' and I use '#*$!' and 'yyy' as parse criteria. With $cis[0] I got #*$!topyyy as a result. $cis[1] just returned 'top' and that was what I was looking for ;-)

[g1smd]

Yes, $cis[1] as I thought.

[phranque]

Thanks phranque, it works now ;-)

thanks go to g1smd...
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