I'm trying to read a MySpace FriendID out of a web page. If you view
the source, you see this is multiple places:
&friendID=12345&
What's the simplest way to extract the FriendID and stick it in a
variable? Is there a regex that would do this?

Brian Dunning wrote:
I'm trying to read a MySpace FriendID out of a web page. If you view the
source, you see this is multiple places:

&friendID=12345&

What's the simplest way to extract the FriendID and stick it in a
variable? Is there a regex that would do this?

Is it always in that format?

preg_match ( "/&friendID=(\d{5,})&/", $source, $id );

The result will be in $id[1].

That did it, thanks! :)

Brian Dunning wrote:
That did it, thanks! :)
Keep in mind that if the ID is less than 5 digits, it won't match (I
don't know where MySpace ID's start). You can change it to something
like \d{1,} if you want it to match 1 or more digits.