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Message #1 by "sstewart" <sstewart_59102@y...> on Thu, 7 Mar 2002 17:34:42
Hello,



I'm trying to create a web page that parses another web page using regular 

expressions.  I want to retrieve all values between the <font> and </font> 

tags and store this information in a database.



My regular expression will look something like this.  Please correct me if 

this is wrong:



'/^(<FONT color=#b75b00 size=3>)(/.)+(</FONT>)/$'



Basically, I want to store the second grouping, (/.)+, in the database.  

Do I use the Matches() method of the regular expressions object, or maybe 

the split() method?  Or is there a better way of doing this?



Any help would be appreciated.



sstewart
Message #2 by "sstewart" <sstewart_59102@y...> on Thu, 7 Mar 2002 17:54:18
Another note.  I don't know if this was clear or not.  I want to store the 

second grouping in an array, and then iterate through the array storing 

each value in the database.  So my question is what method do I use to 

store those values in an array?



Hope this makes it clearer.



sstewart



> Hello,

> 

> I'm trying to create a web page that parses another web page using 

regular 

> expressions.  I want to retrieve all values between the <font> and 

</font> 

> tags and store this information in a database.

> 

> My regular expression will look something like this.  Please correct me 

if 

> this is wrong:

> 

> '/^(<FONT color=#b75b00 size=3>)(/.)+(</FONT>)/$'

> 

> Basically, I want to store the second grouping, (/.)+, in the database.  

> Do I use the Matches() method of the regular expressions object, or 

maybe 

> the split() method?  Or is there a better way of doing this?

> 

> Any help would be appreciated.

> 

> sstewart

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