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google of X results regex pattern for php function preg_match

Im new to regex but not new to the php language. Im looking for a regex pattern that will capture the number of results from "ANY" of the following snippets... Also the content being searched is basically ALL the html from a google search so it needs to be precise and character limited so it doesnt pick up "of about" or "" somewhere later in the content...

CODE:
preg_match($regexpattern,$content,$result);
print $result[1];

EXAMPLES:

CONTENT: Results 1 - 5 of 5 for
RESULT SHOULD BE: 5

CONTENT: Results 1 - 10 of about 15,000,000 for
RESULT SHOULD BE: 15000000

CONTENT: Results 1 - 8 of about 12,000 for
RESULT SHOULD BE: 12000

CONTENT: Results 1 - 8 of 987 for
RESULT SHOULD BE: 987

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obrienslalom

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marchent

preg_match('|of[^<]+<b>([\d,\s]+)</b> for|',$content,$result);
$result[1] = preg_replace('/\D/', '',$result[1]);
print $result[1];

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cimmer

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just so both of you guys know... has to be escaped such as <\/b>
obrienslalom's pattern worked great i ended up tweaking it a bit to the following...

preg_match('/Results 1\s*-\s*[\d]{1,2}\s*of[A-Za-z ]*([\d.,]{1,22}) for/si',$content,$results);
to simplify things I did a str_replace on $content to remove tags before using the pattern above.

cimmer

ASKER

dont forget to escape / with a \/