Daevid Vincent wrote:
> A friend was showing off his regex-fu and the virtues of "named groups"
> and how great Python is, knowing that PHP had to be equally as good
> (since it uses the same PCRE libraries), we whipped up this little test.
> So now us PHP folks can enjoy the same benefit! :-)
>
> vince...@dev1:~$ cat ./named_groups_test.php
> <?php
> //http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php
> //http://www.regular-expressions.info/named.html
>
> preg_match("/(?P<foo>abc)(.*)(?P<bar>xyz)/",
> 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz',
> $matches);
> print_r($matches);
> ?>
>
> vince...@dev1:~$ php ./named_groups_test.php
> Array
> (
> [0] => abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
> [foo] => abc
> [1] => abc
> [2] => defghijklmnopqrstuvw
> [bar] => xyz
> [3] => xyz
> )
>
>
This needs to be directed to whomever it was about six months ago that was
asking about this.
They were trying to figure out how to do this, but I believe they were told
that it could not be done.
Nice example!
--
Jim Lucas
"Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness,
and some have greatness thrust upon them."
Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V
by William Shakespeare
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