[PHP] Regular expression question

[Jim Lucas]

well, first off '>' should not be allowed as a value of an attr="" pair
anyways.

You should convert it to > or <

this will solve that problem.

Jim Lucas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Phiffer" <dan@phiffer.org>
To: <php-general@lists.php.net>
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 4:03 PM
Subject: [PHP] Regular expression question

> So I want to grab the attributes out of an HTML element. The following
> works, except in the case that the attribute's value includes the

character

> ">":
>
> if (preg_match_all("/<tag([^>]*)>/i", $subject, $matches))
> print_r($matches);
>
> A $subject of "<tag attr=\"value\">" gives:
>
> Array
> (
> [0] => Array
> (
> [0] =>
> )
>
> [1] => Array
> (
> [0] => attr="value"
> )
>
> )
>
> A $subject of "<tag attr=\">\">" gives:
>
> Array
> (
> [0] => Array
> (
> [0] =>
>
> Thanks for any help,
> -Dan
>
>
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[Dan Phiffer]

Actually, this is for a general purpose templating that might use < and > or
[ and ] (i.e. [element attribute="value"]), but I suppose the same character
entity requirement could be applied to other "boundary characters." Somehow
it didn't occur to me.

Thanks for the response,
-Dan

"Jim Lucas" <phplist@zonedzero.net> wrote in message
news:001301c35ae3$0db0ea40$dd64a8c0@xp...

> well, first off '>' should not be allowed as a value of an attr="" pair
> anyways.
>
> You should convert it to &gt; or &lt;
>
> this will solve that problem.
>
> Jim Lucas
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Phiffer" <dan@phiffer.org>
> To: <php-general@lists.php.net>
> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 4:03 PM
> Subject: [PHP] Regular expression question
>
>

> > So I want to grab the attributes out of an HTML element. The following
> > works, except in the case that the attribute's value includes the

> character

> > ">":
> >
> > if (preg_match_all("/<tag([^>]*)>/i", $subject, $matches))
> > print_r($matches);
> >
> > A $subject of "<tag attr=\"value\">" gives:
> >
> > Array
> > (
> > [0] => Array
> > (
> > [0] =>
> > )
> >
> > [1] => Array
> > (
> > [0] => attr="value"
> > )
> >
> > )
> >
> > A $subject of "<tag attr=\">\">" gives:
> >
> > Array
> > (
> > [0] => Array
> > (
> > [0] =>
> >
> > Thanks for any help,
> > -Dan
> >
> >
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> >
> >

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