[RESOLVED] Help with preg_match function

Hi all i am trying to use preg_match to get number of pages from a html that has this format :

HTML Code:

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<div class="pagingOf">of </div><a class="pagingLink" href="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$cpMain$UserViewPictureControl$PagerTop','4')">4</a>

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in this case i want to grab the number 4 but it never works. Could any one tell me what

PHP Code:

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global $curl;

// Retrieve number of pages page.
    echo 'Checking friends list... ';
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, './test.html');
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 0);
    $result = curl_exec($curl);
    $headers = curl_getinfo($curl);
    
    // Find out how many pages there are. 
    if (preg_match('~of <a href="(.+?)" class="pagingLink">([0-9]+)</a>~', $result, $matches))
    {
        $pages = $matches[2];
            echo ' Number of pages: $pages ';
        unset($matches);
        
    } 


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You have to be joking that you've posted almost the exact same thing 3 times and still haven't sorted it? I gave you code that worked perfectly fine.

RudiVisser thanks for your reply. But if you look closely you see the html is different then previous one!! Before posing this i tried your solutions it didn't work for my current html:

New html:

HTML Code:

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of </div><a class="pagingLink" href="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$cpMain$UserViewPictureControl$PagerTop','4')">4</a>

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old html:

HTML Code:

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of <a href="javascript: GotoPage(4);" class="pagingLink">4</a>

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Well then you look closely and I'm sure you'll figure it out:

HTML Code:

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of </div><a class="pagingLink" href="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$cpMain$UserViewPictureControl$PagerTop','4')">4</a>

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PHP Code:

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'of <a href="(.+?)" class="pagingLink">([0-9]+)</a>' 


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What comes first in the opening tag?

Thanks i fixed it :-)

PHP Code:

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if (preg_match('%of </div><a class="pagingLink" href="(.+?)">([0-9]+)</a>%', $result, $matches)) 
{ 
    $pages = $matches[2]; 
    echo 'There are '.$pages.' pages.'; 
} 


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