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<?php $cool ='<li><span class="sidebar-vote-number"><a href="/story.php?title=gamestarts now">1</a></span><span class="sidebar-article"><a href="/story.php?title=googlegoogle-google-google" class="switchurl">GoogleGoogle Google Google</a></span></li> Published News</a></div> </div> <div class="boxcontent"> <ul class="sidebar-stories"> <li><span class="sidebar-vote-number"><a href="/story.php?title=googlegoogle-google-google">1</a></span><span class="sidebar-article"><a href="/story.php?title=googlegoogle-google-google" class="switchurl">GoogleGoogle Google Google</a></span></li>'; preg_match('~Published News.*<li><span class="sidebar-vote-number"><a href="([^"]*)~msU', $cool, $match); var_dump($match);
Output for 4.3.0 - 4.3.11, 4.4.0 - 4.4.9, 5.0.0 - 5.0.5, 5.1.0 - 5.1.6, 5.2.0 - 5.2.17, 5.3.0 - 5.3.29, 5.4.0 - 5.4.45, 5.5.24 - 5.5.35, 5.6.7 - 5.6.28, 7.0.0 - 7.0.20, 7.1.0 - 7.1.25, 7.2.0 - 7.2.33, 7.3.0 - 7.3.33, 7.4.0 - 7.4.33, 8.0.0 - 8.0.30, 8.1.0 - 8.1.28, 8.2.0 - 8.2.18, 8.3.0 - 8.3.6
array(2) { [0]=> string(170) "Published News</a></div> </div> <div class="boxcontent"> <ul class="sidebar-stories"> <li><span class="sidebar-vote-number"><a href="" [1]=> string(0) "" }

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