[PHP] Re: ereg() can't recognize characters... [SOLVED]

[DvDmanDT]

Also... You know, there's a (.*?) command as well.. Might work just about
perfect in your situation...

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"Ivo Fokkema" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i meddelandet
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> Well d*mn, why didn't I think of this... It seems to work now! Thanks!
>
> I'm not such an expert on the Perl compatible regexp's so I rarely use
> them... Yet another reason to start using them though...
>
> Thanx!
>
> "Dvdmandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > Use preg_*() functions then? Not that I think they would be much better
> > but...
> >
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> > "Ivo Fokkema" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i meddelandet
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> > > Hi list,
> > >
> > > I read through the manual and tried to find something on google, but I
> > > didn't come to anything useful.
> > >
> > > It seems that the ereg()-family (I tried ereg(), eregi() and
> > ereg_replace())
> > > can't recognize any special characters such as èéêë etc. I tested this
:
> > >
> > > <?php
> > > print
> > >
> >
>
(ereg("[[:alnum:][:alpha:][:blank:][:cntrl:][:digit:][:graph:][:lower:][:pri
> > > nt:][:punct:][:space:][:upper:][:xdigit:]]","é"));
> > > ?>
> > >
> > > and it returned a blank screen. When I fill in a regular character
such
> as
> > > 'e' or a slash or whatever, it returns 1. I ran into this when I
tested
> a
> > > script which should replace '{PMID[PubMed ID number]:[First author's
> > name]}
> > > into a link to the article online. For instance,
> "{PMID12632325:Flanigan}"
> > > results in "<A
> > >
> >
>
href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&amp;db=PubM
> > > ed&amp;dopt=Abstract&amp;list_uids=12632325"
> > target="_blank">Flanigan</A>".
> > >
> > > This worked all fine, until an author's name was Müller. Then my
> > > ereg_replace() failed (below). Any ideas?
> > >
> > > <?php
> > > $val = ereg_replace("{PMID([[:alnum:]. _-]*):([[:alnum:]. _-]*)}", "<A
> > >
> >
>
href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&amp;db=Pub
> > > Med&amp;dopt=Abstract&amp;list_uids=\\1\"
> > > target=\"_blank\">\\2</A>","{PMID11519736:Müller}");
> > > print ($val);
> > > ?>
> > >
> > > TIA!
> > >
> > > --
> > > [Win2000 | Apache/1.3.23]
> > > [PHP/4.2.3 | MySQL/3.23.53]
> > >
> > > Ivo Fokkema
> > > PHP & MySQL programmer
> > > Leiden University Medical Centre
> > > Netherlands
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>



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