Regular expression help

Hi,

pls try

\((\d+)\)

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Regards

This match beginning of a line follow with a open parentheses. Capture any number of digits. Match a close parentheses and anything afterward.

^\((\d+)\).+$

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Hi,

Sorry, I forgot to mention I also need to match it against the word products.

"(123) products"

I need to detect "(?) products" and have it return the value of ?

^"\((\d+)\).+"$

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\((\d+)\) products

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Try this pattern:

\((\d+)\) products

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The number will be captured as the first group. There are different ways of getting the value, depending on the language.

Which language are you using?

I'm still reading up on this, but the most common way I've seen thus far is $1 or \1 to grab the first capturing group (or the first outermost group, if you've got nested parens).

Hi,

bigdogdman, your suggestion kind of works, but when I've applied it to the actual text it's not working.

The text I'm looking for is in the middle of some HTML, but it's returning no results, however if I just apply it to the text '(123) products' then its works fine, but in reality the line of text I'm trying to pull from is 'Toys (123) products'

I'm using PHP by the way.

ah sorry, my mistake.

The text I'm actually trying to find is

(123 products)

and not
(123) products

\((\d+)