Question

Using preg_match_all(), I want to match something like:

...randomtext...>MATCH1</a>" (MATCH2)"...randomtext... EDIT: to clarify, this is exactly the string I’m trying to extract data from, including the brackets, quotes, angle-brackets etc.

Here’s what I’ve tried: preg_match_all("/^>(.+?)</a>\" \((.+?)\)\"$/", $htmlfile, $matches);

It should extract MATCH1 as $matches[1][0] and MATCH2 as $matches[2][0]

Any idea why it isn’t working?

Thanks

Answer 1

You didn’t escape your end tag </a>

This should work:

preg_match_all("/>(.+?)<\/a>\" \((.*?)\)/", $htmlfile, $matches);

See Codepad example.