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    <p>So I was learning about regex and stuff today and I got it to work how I wanted it but when I tried to put it to use as part of something to get data from a site, it did not work. Interestingly enough if I echoed the raw html that I was retrieving, then put it into the regex as a string manually, it worked fine. Does anyone know why this would happen? Here is the code:</p> <pre><code>preg_match_all('/&lt;img src="images\/cms\/trinket\/(.*).png" \/&gt;&lt;\/a&gt; &lt;div style="width:85px; font-size:14px; font-weight:bold; color:#731c08;"&gt;(.*)&lt;\/div&gt;/iU', snd('test.php'), $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER); </code></pre> <p>snd is a function with curl returning the data which might be causing the problem but I dont know.</p> <p>snd function:</p> <pre><code>function snd($url) { $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://whatever.com/'.$url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1468.0 Safari/537.36'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1); $result = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); return $result; } </code></pre> <p>example (newlines added for readability):</p> <pre><code>&lt;div style="width:600px; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; text-align:center; position:relative; z-index:1;"&gt; &lt;span style="display:inline-block; width:85px; height:100px;"&gt; &lt;a rel="includes/itemajax.php?id=789&amp;tab=trinket" class="clue"&gt; &lt;img src="images/cms/trinket/789.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div style="width:85px; font-size:14px; font-weight:bold; color:#731c08;"&gt;4&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="display:inline-block; width:85px; height:100px;"&gt; &lt;a rel="includes/itemajax.php?id=891&amp;tab=trinket" class="clue"&gt; &lt;img src="images/cms/trinket/891.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div style="width:85px; font-size:14px; font-weight:bold; color:#731c08;"&gt;3&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/span&gt; </code></pre> <p> </p> <p>should return: 789,4 and 891,3</p>
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    1. COTo scrape a site u'r better of with a DOM parser though
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    2. CO@DarkBee I would but I dont even know how to search for a pattern like this using one
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    3. COIf you suspect that the problem is with snd function's return value then please post that code.
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