Reg expression subset

I understand the approach you're trying to use, though I'd advise letting the Regex do a little more of the work. Try this as the main extractor pattern on the page:

This will grab out just the option box you're after. Then, try this sub-extractor, which will just scan within the 'select' construct:



That 'user_timezone' variable should have a slightly different pattern, because I see in that example text that there's a possible '9.5' value. A '.' is not a digit, and so '\d+' would actually fail to match a result in the event that the real value was '9.5' or any other fractional number. That being said, the pattern I'd use would allow for decimal places: [\d.]+ This way, it will match any combination of digits and decimal points. Theoretically, it would also match 9..1234.43.2.3, but that won't ever pop up on the page, so you're safe.

Basically, the concept I'm utilizing in my extractors is that the pattern simply will fail to match on all the other '<option value=' lines, due to the fact that my sub-extractor includes the 'selected="selected"' text. Including that text says to screen-scraper that the pattern is only allowed to match if 'selected="selected"' follows the number you're after. Otherwise, it'll just continue searching the DATARECORD text until it finds a matching entry.

If that's still a little unclear, I'd be happy to explain it a bit more. Let me know if there are any other issues with that!

Tim