Hi Again, sorry it's taken so long.
Thankyou for your help. I have since reappraised my thoughts on this subject
and would like to thank all of you (and inparticular Rasmus Lerdorf) for
your time in replying to my question. I will not be using anthing that was
provided in reply to circumvent googl
preg_match("Results ([0-9]+) - ([0-9]+) of about ([0-9]+).
Search took ([0-9]+) seconds.",$string, $hits);
$hits[1], $hits[2], $hits[3], $hits[4] will contain your numbers
Henry wrote:
>Yes
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>But that the string is contained within a much bigger string as well
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>I want to search for the f
You are building something that will automatically scrape Google by
explicitly circumventing the tools they have provided for you to do so.
Whether the information is for your own internal statistics or not is
irrelevant. The terms of service state:
No Automated Querying
You may not send aut
9]+[.]*[0-9]*/", $string, $result);
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Dear Rasmus et.al.
I am not wishing to reformat or display or mirror anything from google.
This is for my own internal statistics.
I hope that puts your mind at rest.
Henry
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]+[.]*[0-9]*/", $string, $result);
print_r($result);
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Yes
The string will always be the same and the repective values wi
You realize that you are asking us to help you violate the terms of
service of Google?
A direct quote from their terms of service:
"You may not take the results from a Google search and reformat and
display them, or mirror the Google home page or results pages on your
Web site."
-Rasmus
in the same order each time?
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Are the value in the same order each time?
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Thanks, but I
Yes
But that the string is contained within a much bigger string as well
I want to search for the follwong string but with wild cards for the numeric
values and I would like to know the values as well.
"Results $1 - $2 of about $3. Search took $4
seconds."
Where all the $'s are numeric value
Thanks, but I don't want to uses google's SOAP interface, is there a preg
type solution.
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> Google has a SOAP interface for this.
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> On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Henry wrote:
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> > Dear All,
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> > Excuse
Are you saying you want to be able to extract the numbers etc?
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Subject: [PHP] Findng a pattern
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Google has a SOAP interface for this.
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Henry wrote:
> Dear All,
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> Excuse my ignorance but I'm STILL a newbie to this aspect of PHP.
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> $str="Results 1 - 10 of about 14. Search took
> 0.04 seconds."
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> I would like to look for the string above in a buffer of text. However
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