Question

I want to match the pattern below and obtain the word target.

INPUT TYPE=”HIDDEN” NAME=”TITLE” VALUE=”target “>

I try this but in vain.

preg_match('@(?:<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN"  NAME="TITLE" VALUE=")(.*)(?:">)@',$data,$matches);

I think the problem is because of double quote

I also try \” but still fail…

Answer 1

It fails simply because you have a double space in your pattern in here (marked with _ ):

INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN"__NAME="TITLE"

Remove one space there and it works, anyway here would be my attempt from scratch, case insensitive and either with " or ' though I’m not sure if it’s part of what you want that name has to be title in which case I’d have to edit it a bit.

<?php
    $data = '<input type="hidden" name="title" value="target">';
    preg_match('/<input[^>]+value=[\'"](\w*)[\'"][^>]*>/i',$data,$matches);
    echo $matches[1]; //=> target
?>