I want to retrieve following URLs with a regex:
`HREF="http://www.getty.edu/vow/TGNFullDisplay?find=&place=&nation=&english=Y&subjectid=7009830"`
Or
HREF="http://www.getty.edu/vow/TGNFullDisplay?find=&place=&nation=&english=Y&subjectid=7009830&ptype=PF"
the difference is the ending. the first one doesn't have &ptype=PF
and the second one does.
At the moment, I'm using this pattern:
protected $uriPattern = '/http:\/\/www\.getty\.edu\/vow\/.*?\?find=&place=&nation=&english=Y&subjectid=......./i';
but that works only for the first one.
I wonder how the regex pattern would look like for the preg_match_all()
to match both of them.
If there is an optional part in the strings you are matching, you can add (optional)?
, in your case (&ptype=PF)?
.