Thanks Jon. That was the ticket. I slightly modified it, but it's still the basic stuff.
On Jan 23, 3:33 pm, Jonathan Street <[email protected]> wrote: > I think you're over-complicating the problem in trying to construct a regex > that does everything. I suspect it would be easier to search for > \[mediaspace(.+?)\] and then use explode on space to separate out each of > the attribute=value pairs and then explode again on = to separate attribute > from value. > > On 23 January 2011 18:27, theprodigy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > forgot to add src to the list of attributes I would like to accept. > > Here is the updated list: > > > width:500, > > height:400, > > src:whatever.flv (or myimage.jpg, etc), > > autoplay: false, > > fit:false, > > title:false, > > closetitle:false, > > firstitem:true > > > I think I have a good start on it. Here is what I have. > > (\[mediaspace)(\s+(width|height|src|autoplay|fit|title|closetitle| > > firstitem)=(\d|\w|\.)+)+\] > > > That has a few problems I would like to avoid if possible. It allows > > multiple of the same attribute being set: > > [mediaspace width=200 width=375] > > > And it also allows the attributes to be set with either numbers, > > letters, or . (the period - I added due to src attribute needing file > > extension) > > > If possible, I would like each attribute being able to be set only > > once (or not at all - defaults will be used), and the following > > settings: > > > width (numeric) > > height (numeric) > > src (normal file settings with extension) > > autoplay (boolean) > > fit (boolean) > > title (boolean) > > closetitle (boolean) > > firstitem (boolean) > > > The following regex restricts what each can be set to, and allows to > > put them in any order, but doesn't restrict one per. > > > (\[mediaspace)(\s+(width=(\d)+|height=(\d)+|src=(\d|\w|\.)+| > > autoplay=(true|false)|fit=(true|false)|title=(true|false)| > > closetitle=(true|false)|firstitem=(true|false))?)*\] > > > I thought the ? would restrict 0 or 1, but I guess not in this case. > > > I would appreciate any help you can offer. > > > Thanks > > > -- > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev
