Regular Expressions

From: Andrew Bullock (trullock_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/10/04 

Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 14:32:01 -0000

Hi

Im REALLY stuck with regular expressions!

Can someone please give me a pointer with this...

Im trying to extract a load of images from a site, which are in hrefs.
ie. i want to extract the url and image path

typical hrefs would be:

<a href="test.html"><img src="clickme.jpg"></a>
<a target=_top href="test.html"><img border=0 src="clickme.jpg"></a>
<a href='test.html'> <img src=clickme.jpg></a>

as you can see, there may me double quotes, single quotes or no quotes
surrounding the image and url path, so i need to be able to account for
this.

Also i only want to return info, where there is a jpeg as an image to click,
and the url is a html.

Does that make sense?

$matchstr =
'/<a\s+.*?href=[\"\'s]?(.*?)\"?+src=[\"\'s]?(.*?)\"(.*?)\>\<\/a\>/i';

That almost works, but it returns this :

test.html"><img
thumbs/16.jpg>

how can i fix this?

Many thanks in advance

Andrew

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