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Find string in a file and save it as a variable

Hi all,

I have
file_put_contents('temp.html', preg_replace('//', '', file_get_contents('http://www.mypage.com/')));

I want to find in temp.html the strings that start with http and end with .doc and save them into a variable/array.

How can I do that??

Thanks a lot in advance!

kebabs

This finds http://anything.doc and stores a list in temp.html with each URL, one per line:

e.g.

Source document:
<a href="http://example.com/test1.doc">test1</a><a href="http://example.com/test2.doc">test2</a>

Result:
http://example.com/test1.doc
http://example.com/test2.doc

<?php
 
$contents = file_get_contents('http://example.com');
 
preg_match_all('~https?://.+\.doc~iU', $contents, $matches);
 
file_put_contents('temp.html', join("\n", $matches));

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Dada44

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What I need is:
http://example.com/test1.doc
http://example.com/test2.doc
So I was following your first post.

Also I need
http://example.com/test1.doc
http://example.com/test2.doc
stored in a variable not in temp.html
Anyway temp.html comes out empty ..

Thanks in advance!!

kebabs

Did you make the edit mentioned in the second post to the code in the first post?

Anyway, I think you want what I had in the second post, that one stores each URL in an array.

Dada44

ASKER

Yes I chnaged in the first post what you told me to change in the second and I get an empty file.
If I use the second post the output is:
Array ( )

kebabs

That's strange because I tested that code. I tested it again just then to make sure.

Are you sure there is something in temp.html to read from?

Can you run this to make sure that the contents to search in do in fact exist please:

<?php
 
echo file_get_contents('temp.html');

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Dada44

ASKER

Thanks pal, it was a typo bothering ...