Regular Expression - PHP - php

Question

I am using following PHP code
<?
$data = file_get_contents('http://www.kitco.com/texten/texten.html');
preg_match_all('/([A-Z]{3,5}\s+[0-9]{1,2},[0-9]{4}\s+([0-9.NA]{2,10}\s+){1,7})/si',$data,$result);
$records = array();
foreach($result[1] as $date) {
$temp = preg_split('/\s+/',$date);
$index = array_shift($temp);
$index.= array_shift($temp);
$records[$index] = implode(',',$temp);
}
print_R($records);
?>
To READ the following data
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London Fix GOLD SILVER PLATINUM PALLADIUM
AM PM AM PM AM PM
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Jun 03,2013 1396.75 1402.50 22.4300 1466.00 1487.00 749.00 755.00
May 31,2013 1410.25 1394.50 22.5700 1471.00 1459.00 755.00 744.00
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What i want to do is Read GOLD ( BID & ASK ) price from below table, can anyone help in the regular expression changes?
New York Spot Price
MARKET IS CLOSED
Will open in
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Metals Bid Ask Change Low High
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Gold 1411.20 1412.20 +22.90 +1.65% 1390.10 1418.00
Silver 22.74 22.84 +0.48 +2.13% 22.26 23.08
Platinum 1495.00 1501.00 +41.00 +2.82% 1470.00 1511.00
Palladium 756.00 761.00 +7.00 +0.93% 750.00 766.00
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Last Update on Jun 03, 2013 at 17:14.58
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Answer 1

I'm not sure you could modify your existing regex to match both tables easily, but if you had the second table in a string, you could use:
$string = "PLAIN TEXT TABLE DATA HERE";
preg_match('/Gold\s+(\d+\.\d{2})\s+(\d+\.\d{2})/',$string,$matches);
$goldBid = $matches[1];
$goldAsk = $matches[2];

Answer 2

Here I'm only matching the numbers and period character. This code should return the numbers you're looking for. It uses your data string from your example.
<?
preg_match_all('!Gold\s+([0-9.]+)\s+([0-9.]+)!i',$data,$matches);
//New York
$ny_bid = $matches[1][0];
$ny_ask = $matches[2][0];
print("NY\nbid: $ny_bid\n");
print("ask: $ny_ask\n\n");
//Asia
$asia_bid = $matches[1][1];
$asia_ask = $matches[2][1];
print("Asia\nbid: $asia_bid\n");
print("ask: $asia_ask\n");
?>
Output
NY
bid: 1411.20
ask: 1412.20
Asia
bid: 1406.80
ask: 1407.80

Answer 3

You can also use T-Regx library
<?php
pattern('Gold\s+([0-9.]+)\s+([0-9.]+)', 'i')->match($data)->forEach(function ($m) {
print 'bid: ' . $m->group(1);
print 'ask: ' . $m->group(2);
});