syntax for preg function in php

druagord posted this at 15:29 — 16th December 2003.

Joined: May 2003

hello i use this to split the head element from the body element when reading a html file

<?php
preg_match_all(\"/(<head>.*<\/head>)|(<body.*<\/body>)/smi\",$file,$arrResult);
?>

the problem is that even with i at the end the the expression is case sensitive i found on php.net that you could correct that with (?i) in the expression but i don't find the correct syntax

i know this would work but i don't like it

<?php
preg_match_all(\"/(<[hH][eE][aA][dD]>.*<\/[hH][eE][aA][dD]>)|(<[bB][oO][dD][yY].*<\/[bB][oO][dD][yY]>)/smi\",$file,$arrResult);
?>

IF , ELSE , WHILE isn't that what life is all about

Mark Hensler posted this at 18:17 — 16th December 2003.

He has: 4,048 posts

Joined: Aug 2000

I'm having no case sensitivity problems with preg_match_all() with the "smi" modifiers.

http://host.maxalbert.com/testing_center/regex_exercise9.php

<?php
$string=<<<myHTML
<html>
<head>
<title>this is the head</title>
</head>
<body>
this is the body
</body>
</html>
myHTML;

echo \"<html><body>\";
echo \"<textarea rows=\\"24\\" cols=\\"40\\" wrap=\\"off\\">$string</textarea>\";
echo \"&nbsp;<textarea rows=\\"24\\" cols=\\"40\\" wrap=\\"off\\">\n\";

preg_match(\"!(<head>)(.*)(</head>)!smi\", $string, $head);
preg_match(\"!(<body.*)(.*)(</body>)!smi\", $string, $body);

print_r($head);
print_r($body);

echo \"</textarea></body></html>\";
?>

Mark Hensler
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druagord posted this at 18:43 — 16th December 2003.

He has: 335 posts

Joined: May 2003

Did you try it with in $string instead the line i have works great if the tags are lower case that's why i don't think it's an error in the expression but in the modifier. I tried with "!" instead of "/" as delimiter but i get the same thing.

IF , ELSE , WHILE isn't that what life is all about

druagord posted this at 18:58 — 16th December 2003.

He has: 335 posts

Joined: May 2003

Ok i now did like you with 2 preg_match and it works fine. i cant understand why preg_match_all wouldn't work anyway i'll use like this. Thanks for the help was really stuck on this one

IF , ELSE , WHILE isn't that what life is all about