Parse partial html string and isolate specific numbers

Question

I need to grab the number of pages from the following text:

<font size="1" color="blue" face="Verdana, Arial">Page 1 of 5 / 22 Records

I have no experience with regex. Since I mostly program in C, I tried this:

sscanf($result, "Page 1 of %d", $Npages);

But it doesn't work.

Answer 1

Try:

<?php
$str = '<font size="1" color="blue" face="Verdana, Arial">Page 1 of 5 / 22 Records';

if (preg_match('!Page.*?(\d+)\s+/.+Records!', $str, $matches)) {
    $pages = $matches[1];
    echo $pages;
}