Finding an in a mess

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(I have to deal with this awful vendor site made for IE6)

I'm trying to find a way to dig out a link.

ex: <a href="/part/id.aspx?v=449530">, no matter where it may appear.

Basically, the first <a> beginning with /part/id.aspx?v=.

And extract the '449530'. There are no usable id's, classes, or anything, and the whole thing isn't valid HTML, XHTML, or XML.

Been going at it with http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net to not much avail.

Any help is very much aprpeciated.

This thread will probably help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/303956/jquery-select-a-which-href-contains-some-string — Prpl_Ppl_Etr, Feb 10 '12 at 22:14

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 10 '12 at 19:01

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preg_match("(/part/id\.aspx\?v=([0-9]+))",$data,$m);
$id = $m[1];

That should do it.

answered Feb 10 '12 at 19:01

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 10 '12 at 19:01

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Try using a regular expression to find the element:

href=\"\/part-id\.aspx\?v=(?<id>\d+)\"

answered Feb 10 '12 at 19:01

mynameiscoffey

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