[NewToJava2011]

Title Correction:

NO error received with regular expression

Any ideas how I can access the numeric value for the currency rate from the following XML tag:

<description>1 British Pound Sterling = 1.20409 Euro</description>

I require the numeric value 1.20409. Another problem will be the number 1 before British Pound.


My attempt so far:

function get_rate1(SimpleXMLElement $xml) {
    $exchange['rate'] = $xml->channel->item[15]->description;
    echo $exchange['rate'] . "<br />";

    // Preg match regular expression to extract numbers
    $imgpattern = "/^([0-9])$/";
    preg_match($imgpattern, $exchange, $matches);

    $exchange['rate'] = $matches[1];
    echo $exchange['rate'] . ' /><br />';

    return $rate;
}

Nothing is displayed with the above?

This post has been edited by NewToJava2011: 31 January 2012 - 01:09 PM

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<?php
  # URL that generated this code:
  # http://txt2re.com/index-php.php3?s=%3Cdescription%3E1%20British%20Pound%20Sterling%20=%201.20409%20Euro%3C/description%3E&10

  $txt='<description>1 British Pound Sterling = 1.20409 Euro</description>';

  $re1='.*?';	# Non-greedy match on filler
  $re2='([+-]?\\d*\\.\\d+)(?![-+0-9\\.])';	# Float 1

  if ($c=preg_match_all ("/".$re1.$re2."/is", $txt, $matches))
  {
      $float1=$matches[1][0];
      print "($float1) \n";
  }

  #-----
  # Paste the code into a new php file. Then in Unix:
  # $ php x.php 
  #-----
?>