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[cdc]

I'm actually doing this using PHP's preg_match_all, but I think a regex is a regex is a regex so I posted it here.

I'm trying to pull some info off a page. There are several instances of this info spread across the page, and some of them are numbers. I'm not interested in the numbers.

So, here's what I would do if I were interested in the numbers:

/\<tag\>(.+?)\<\/tag\>/

Which would pull all the information between <tag></tag> on the page. However, I want to remove the ones that are a number so I naively tried this:

/\<tag\>[^0-9]\<\/tag\>/

What am I missing?

[perkiset]

Hey C - would you please post an example of what you WOULD like to grab as well as what you wouldn't? That'd be just a bit easier to see.

Thanks!
/p

[dirk]

Hi cdc,

your example would match: <tag>a</tag>
but not: <tag>ab</tag>

So I would change the regex to:

/\<tag\>[^0-9]+?\<\/tag\>/

[cdc]

Thanks, dirk, works like a charm.

Just for completeness, here's an example of something I'd like it to match:

<tag>hello</tag>

Here's an example of what I don't want to match:

<tag>1</tag>

So I want to grab everything in the "tag" tag that's NOT a number.

[perkiset]

Sheesh - really was that simple eh?
Sorry C - thought it'd be more complex if you posted some demos

/p

[crypt]

\D is the same as [^0-9]
\d is the same as [0-9]

\W is the same as [^a-zA-Z0-9]
\w is the same as [a-zA-Z0-9]

i thought there was one for [a-zA-Z], but i don't remember ever using it