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[inforequest]

As always happpens, just when you look for help the problem goes away 
(?)  I suppose it's an error in the pattern, although I still don't see it.



inforequest 1j0lkq002-at-sneakemail.com |nyphp dev/internal group use| 
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>I have a string of html, and inside are a few phone numbers. I used preg_split to split the string into tags and their contents, and am using preg_grep on that array to find phone numbers. It works fine... except I don't understand why the results array from preg_grep is not just the matches but the entire array plus 2 more (the matches) (?).
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>I doubt I can recreate a decent regex inside this email, but basically it's just 
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>$mystring='
><strong>Exxon Mobil</strong><br>refinery inventory<br>empty orders<br>Verona, NJ 07044<br>973-432-0277<br>973-439-4877 (fax)<br>Washington Mutual Insurance<br>
>';
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>//one line per tag or content
>$pattern = '/(<(?:[^<>]+(?:"[^"]*"|\'[^\']*\')?)+>)/';
>$html_array = preg_split ('/(<(?:[^<>]+(?:"[^"]*"|\'[^\']*\')?)+>)/', trim ($mystring), -1, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE | PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
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>$phone = preg_grep("/^\D*(\d{3})\D*(\d{3})\D*(\d{4})\D*(\d*)$/", $html_array);
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>If you examine $phone, it has all of the html_array and then the twophonenumbers found, properly keyed. 
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>Thanks for helping me understand this. I expected thelength of $phone to be num_matches, and the first element to be the first phone number found.  Oops.
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>-=john andrews
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