Question

Need a regex to get numbers of pages in the thread:

example url : traidnt.net/vb/f25

i tried this :

'~<td class="vbmenu_control" style="font-weight:normal">.*([2-9]{1}|[0-9]{2,}).*</td>~isU' 

but it wont work.

Thanking you

Answer 1

/.*?([0-9]{2,}|[2-9]{1}).*/s

matches a one-digit number > 1 or any multi-digit number.

please note that this does not match correctly when: “page 1 of 1 pages”

if the string is fixed, you better go with:

/page \d+ of (\d+) pages/is

or if the string is not absolutely fixed but you want the second number from the string you may use:

/\D*(\d+)\D*(\d+)\D*/s

and use the second sub-match. (will also match correctly when “page 1 of 1 pages”.