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Asked: 2026-06-17T21:46:02+00:00

Just trying to preg_match the second match. <?php $url = http://domain.com; preg_match(‘~<table([^>]*)(class\\s*=\\s*[\’]ladder-table[\’])([^>]*)>(.*?)</table>~i’, file_get_contents($url), $match);

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Just trying to preg_match the second match.

<?php
$url = "http://domain.com";
preg_match('~<table([^>]*)(class\\s*=\\s*["\']ladder-table["\'])([^>]*)>(.*?)</table>~i', file_get_contents($url), $match);
print $match[0];    
?>

Here is the table I’m trying to find:

<table class="ladder-table">Content</table>
<table class="ladder-table">Content</table> <-- [This one]
<table class="ladder-table">Content</table>

The last two tables are hidden by a java script code. Does it influence on the pattern?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you want to continue to use regular expressions, use preg_match_all:

    $url = "http://domain.com";
preg_match_all('~<table([^>]*)(class\\s*=\\s*["\']ladder-table["\'])([^>]*)>(.*?)</table>~i', file_get_contents($url), $match);
print_r($match[0][1]);

    This may be enough for your requirements. However, it’s difficult to make your code robust enough to deal with changes to the HTML; for instance, the above wouldn’t match if Content has any new lines, because you’re checking for .*? without the PCRE_DOTALL modifier.

    The correct way to handle this would be using a proper HTML parser such as DOM or others.

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