Ummm...
\?playerId=([\d]{4,6})\"
On May 13, 10:20 pm, isaac2004 <[email protected]> wrote:
> hello,
>
> i am trying to screen scrape baseball player photos from ESPN.com, i
> am having problems obtaining the playerID for a specific player. The
> html for thier site looks like this
>
> <td><a href="/mlb/players/profile?playerId=5446">Kiko Calero</a></td>
>
> my goal is to pass the team, first and last name through the QS, and
> then put those into a function to grab the playerID for the specific
> player. i am interested in just grabbing the 5446 portion of the
> string. the number can be between 4-6 characters. i am a little
> confused how to do this. i tried multiple expressions, but keep
> grabbing all the numbers, i just want the one per player. thank you
> for any help that you can give me. thanks
