来自HTML的php preg_match

Question

Hi I need to extract data from a web page, in this case I need to extract the number 278 from $sting.

$string = 'title="Metal:| <table class="resourceTooltip">
            <tr>
                <th>Disponible:</th>
                <td><span class="">278&lt';

$regex ='~title="Metal:| <table class="resourceTooltip">
            <tr>
                <th>Disponible:</th>
                <td><span class="">\s*\((.*?)\)\s*&lt~';
    preg_match($regex , $postResult, $match);
    print_r($match);

Above code outputs:

Array ( [0] => title="Metal: ) 

Ideally I'd like not to use url_decode function. Hope someone can point me in the right direction.

Answer 1

Try something much simpler:

$regex = "/Disponible:\D+(\d+)/";
preg_match($regex,$string,$match);
var_dump($match[1]);

The power of regexes come from their flexibility.