Doh... I thought that would stop once it found four digits without looking
further. Perfect thanks.
On Saturday 26 March 2011 21:32, Simon J Welsh wrote:
> /myid=([\d]{4,7})/ would match myid=4-7digits and have that in [0] and just
> the digits in [1].
>
> On 26/03/2011, at 10:05 PM, Michael Adams wrote:
> > i want to extract a match from a string. I have these working:
> >
> > /myid=[0-9][0-9][0-9]/
> >
> > on "index.php?foo=Y&myid=123456&bar=2"
> > with the result
> >
> > Array
> > (
> > [0] => Array
> > (
> > [0] => myid=123
> > )
> >
> > )
> >
> > or
> >
> > /myid=[0-9]{7}|[0-9]{6}|[0-9]{5}|[0-9]{4}/
> >
> > Array
> > (
> > [0] => Array
> > (
> > [0] => 123456
> > )
> >
> > )
> >
> > "myid" is between 4 and seven digits and i need to get the full number
> > hence why i check for 7 first.
> >
> > /myid=[0-9]{7}|myid=[0-9]{6}|myid=[0-9]{5}|myid=[0-9]{4}/
> >
> > Array
> > (
> > [0] => Array
> > (
> > [0] => myid=123456
> > )
> >
> > )
> >
> > Just tried this... it works, it is what i want, but it just seems way
> > OTT. Is there a simpler way?
> >
> > Much cleaner would be a way of extracting just the digits after ensuring
> > it followed "myid=" but i can do that on a second call if needed.
> >
> > TIA
> >
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