[RESOLVED] Help with preg_match function

[tony007]

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

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

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

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);
        
    }