Re: [PHP] regular expression question

2007-09-01 Thread Richard Heyes
But how? The +[a-z]{2,} seems to allow at least two a-z clusters, but it doesn't include a period. /ml Almost correct. The plus belongs to whatever comes before it, not after. So what you're referring to as matching two or more characters but not the period, is this: [a-z]{2,} And this will

Re: [PHP] regular expression question

2007-08-31 Thread Per Jessen
Matthew Lasar wrote: > At 11:32 AM 8/31/2007, Per Jessen wrote: >>Matthew Lasar wrote: >> >> > But I don't understand why the second half of the regular >> > expression works. I'm talking about this part: >> > >> > @([-a-z0-9]+\.)+[a-z]{2,}/"; >> > >> > why is it able to detect repeated sections o

Re: [PHP] regular expression question

2007-08-31 Thread Matthew Lasar
At 11:32 AM 8/31/2007, Per Jessen wrote: Matthew Lasar wrote: > But I don't understand why the second half of the regular expression > works. I'm talking about this part: > > @([-a-z0-9]+\.)+[a-z]{2,}/"; > > why is it able to detect repeated sections of the email address after > "@" that are sep

Re: [PHP] regular expression question

2007-08-31 Thread Per Jessen
Matthew Lasar wrote: > But I don't understand why the second half of the regular expression > works. I'm talking about this part: > > @([-a-z0-9]+\.)+[a-z]{2,}/"; > > why is it able to detect repeated sections of the email address after > "@" that are separated by periods? like "@email.alaska.co

[PHP] regular expression question

2007-08-31 Thread Matthew Lasar
Hello: I've adapted this regular expression script from a book, but I'm not clear why it works. $email = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; $pattern = "/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@([-a-z0-9]+\.)+[a-z]{2,}/"; ___ if ( preg_match($pattern,$email) ) { print "yes! " . $email . " matches!"; } else { print "no match"

Re: [PHP] Regular expression question

2005-08-11 Thread Leon Vismer
Hi Robin Many thanks for this, how would one extend this to support the following: $str = "insert into userComment (userID, userName, userSurname) values (0, 'Leon', 'mcDonald')"; one does not want $str = "insert into user_comment (user_id, user_name, user_surname) values (0, 'Leon', 'mc_dona

Re: [PHP] Regular expression question

2005-08-11 Thread Robin Vickery
On 8/11/05, Leon Vismer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I would like to convert from one naming convention within a sql statement to > another. > > I have the following, > > > $str = "insert into userComment (userID, userName, userSurname) values (0, > 'Leon', 'Vismer')"; > > $match = arra

Re: [PHP] Regular expression question

2005-08-11 Thread Leon Vismer
Hi > Just a quick note; why dont' you search on "user" since it's the constant > and replace 'user[A-Z]' with 'user_[a-z]' or in the case of userID > 'user[A-Z]{2}' This is part of my problem user will not always be constant, I basically want to be able to change between two naming conventions.

Re: [PHP] Regular expression question

2005-08-11 Thread b-bonini
n Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Leon Vismer wrote: > Hi > > I would like to convert from one naming convention within a sql statement to > another. > > I have the following, > > > $str = "insert into userComment (userID, userName, userSurname) values (0, > 'Leon', 'Vismer')"; > > $match = array( > "/([a-z]+)

[PHP] Regular expression question

2005-08-11 Thread Leon Vismer
Hi I would like to convert from one naming convention within a sql statement to another. I have the following, $str = "insert into userComment (userID, userName, userSurname) values (0, 'Leon', 'Vismer')"; $match = array( "/([a-z]+)(ID)/", "/([a-z]+)([A-Z])/" ); $replace = array( "\$1_id",

Re: [PHP] Regular expression question

2004-05-27 Thread Justin Patrin
Rob Ellis wrote: On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 09:59:05AM -0700, Dan Phiffer wrote: So I'm trying to implement a simple wiki-like syntax for hyperlinking. Basically I want to match stuff like [this], where the word 'this' gets turned into a hyperlink. I have that working, but I want to be able to esca

Re: [PHP] Regular expression question

2004-05-27 Thread Rob Ellis
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 09:59:05AM -0700, Dan Phiffer wrote: > So I'm trying to implement a simple wiki-like syntax for hyperlinking. > Basically I want to match stuff like [this], where the word 'this' gets > turned into a hyperlink. I have that working, but I want to be able to > escape the op

[PHP] Regular expression question

2004-05-27 Thread Dan Phiffer
So I'm trying to implement a simple wiki-like syntax for hyperlinking. Basically I want to match stuff like [this], where the word 'this' gets turned into a hyperlink. I have that working, but I want to be able to escape the opening bracket, so that it's possible to do \[that] without having it

Re: [PHP] Regular expression question

2003-08-04 Thread Dan Phiffer
problem. > > Jim Lucas > - Original Message - > From: "Dan Phiffer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 4:03 PM > Subject: [PHP] Regular expression question > > > > So I want to grab the a

Re: [PHP] Regular expression question

2003-08-04 Thread Jim Lucas
]> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 4:03 PM Subject: [PHP] Regular expression question > So I want to grab the attributes out of an HTML element. The following > works, except in the case that the attribute's value includes the character > ">": > > if (preg_match_all

[PHP] Regular expression question

2003-08-04 Thread Dan Phiffer
So I want to grab the attributes out of an HTML element. The following works, except in the case that the attribute's value includes the character ">": if (preg_match_all("/]*)>/i", $subject, $matches)) print_r($matches); A $subject of "" gives: Array ( [0] => Array (

Re: [PHP] regular expression question

2002-11-01 Thread John Nichel
It might, you should test it to find out. John Meyer wrote: I've got a regexp: (EV[0-9]{2})!([0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2})!(GR[0-9]{2}).txt My question is, will it match this: EV01!2002-11-09!VR01!GR01.txt And anything formatted like this: (EV02, and so forth). -- PHP General Mailing L

[PHP] regular expression question

2002-11-01 Thread John Meyer
I've got a regexp: (EV[0-9]{2})!([0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2})!(GR[0-9]{2}).txt My question is, will it match this: EV01!2002-11-09!VR01!GR01.txt And anything formatted like this: (EV02, and so forth). -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.n

[PHP] Regular expression question

2002-08-30 Thread Jeff Lewis
Is there a regular expression that will remove 1, L, I, O, 0 and the lowercase equivilants from a varialbe? I am not horribly well versed in regular expressions...so I'm basically asking someone to help :) Say I have a string like this "jeD1GLal" I want to remove any of the chracters that be co

Re: [PHP] Regular expression question

2001-11-09 Thread Jack Dempsey
num is 151? see what i mean? - Original Message - From: "Leon Mergen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 1:53 PM Subject: [PHP] Regular expression question > Hello, > > I have a little question regarding regular

[PHP] Regular expression question

2001-11-09 Thread Leon Mergen
Hello, I have a little question regarding regular expressions... I want to check for the pattern $num:: But, $num may not be started with another number (assume the number will be 51 , 1 will also match (the pattern 1:: is available in 51::) ... Currently, my regular expression is: eregi("([^0

RE: [PHP] Regular Expression Question

2001-07-25 Thread Matthew Loff
eturns "bcd" -Original Message- From: Seb Frost [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 5:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; PHP Subject: RE: [PHP] Regular Expression Question I hope my later message clarifys what I mean. - seb -Original Message- From: Jeff O

RE: [PHP] Regular Expression Question

2001-07-25 Thread Seb Frost
I hope my later message clarifys what I mean. - seb -Original Message- From: Jeff Oien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 July 2001 22:05 To: PHP Subject: RE: [PHP] Regular Expression Question Aren't the trims just for white space? Jeff Oien > since you know exactly

RE: [PHP] Regular Expression Question

2001-07-25 Thread Jeff Oien
string,1,5); > > or something like that. No need for complicated regular expressions either > way. > > - seb > > -Original Message- > From: Jeff Oien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 25 July 2001 21:47 > To: PHP > Subject: [PHP] Regular Expression Question

RE: [PHP] Regular Expression Question correction

2001-07-25 Thread Seb Frost
$newstring = substr($string,1,4); FOUR, not FIVE. Doh. -Original Message- From: Seb Frost [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 July 2001 22:03 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; PHP Subject: RE: [PHP] Regular Expression Question since you know exactly which 4 characters you want to keep you can

RE: [PHP] Regular Expression Question

2001-07-25 Thread Seb Frost
Subject: [PHP] Regular Expression Question I want to replace a string like this 1B335-2G with this B335. So for all the strings I want to remove the first character and the last three characters. I'm not sure which replace function to use or how to go about it. Thanks. Jeff Oien -- PHP Ge

[PHP] Regular Expression Question

2001-07-25 Thread Jeff Oien
I want to replace a string like this 1B335-2G with this B335. So for all the strings I want to remove the first character and the last three characters. I'm not sure which replace function to use or how to go about it. Thanks. Jeff Oien -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubs

[PHP] Regular Expression Question

2001-05-22 Thread Dylan Finney
Hello, I was wondering if there is a way to match a pattern, then delete the entire line containing the pattern. I.E. (if I was searching for "pattern" in a file containing pattern:info:info:info pattern2:info:info:info pattern3:info:info:info is there a way to delete the entire, and only the