Any questions involving matching text strings to patterns - the pattern is called a "regular expression."
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spib
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by spib »
Hi,
This is a bit of a tricky one - I need to find a url in some html by a given unique ID and then expand out the result to grab the full url.
So, example html
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<a href="/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=695236" class="videoPicture" title="Click here to view: Video"><img src="http://b8.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00676/88/69/676559688_thumb1.jpg" height="90" width="120" alt="695236" /></a>
I need to grab the
http://b8.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/0067 ... thumb1.jpg url
So far I have
But this doesn't match the whole url.
Can anyone help?
James
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GeertDD
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by GeertDD »
Sometimes it is better to split things up over multiple steps. I think in your case it would may help as well.
First select all URLs using a generic regex. Then loop over all the matches and check for a certain ID.
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spib
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by spib »
Great suggestion, that worked a treat