PHP regular expression returns two empty array

Asked Apr 26 '17 at 03:42

Active Apr 26 '17 at 03:42

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I am trying to get the content within td tags from html,

<?php
 $link = $_POST['link'];
 $data = file_get_contents($link);

 //echo $data;
 $regex ='"!<td>(.*?)</td>!is"';;
 preg_match_all($regex, $data, $matches);
 var_dumP($matches);    
?>

it seems it can get the result, but when I var_dump it, it only have the following result,

array (size=2)
0 => 
array (size=0)
  empty
1 => 
array (size=0)
  empty

it seems can get the something from the regular expression, but the array is empty, cannot show the html content in it. Anything wrong with my regular expression?

asked Apr 26 '17 at 03:42

want_to_be_calm

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can you share the string on which you are checking? – Sahil Gulati Apr 26 '17 at 03:43
Actually, I want use regex to get the question part of stackoverflow post. the queestion seems within – want_to_be_calm Apr 26 '17 at 04:52

PHP regular expression returns two empty array

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