Hi David,
I've added the roman numerals to your regex, now it will match either
just the year (2000) or the year + the roman numeral (2000/I) up to VIII
(I know you said it goes up to III, but you never know)
preg_match('/\((19|20)[0-9][0-9](\/(I{1,3}|IV|VI{0,3}))?\)/',$line,$found);
I haven't fully tested it though (did run it on (2000),
(2000/I)-(2000/VIII) but that was it).
Also this is still case sensitive, don't know if that matters...
Rene
David Roth wrote:
Hi Folks.
I didn't come up with this method, I'm just the one who has to deal
with it. :-)
The year is represented most of the time in this format:
(2000)
This regular expression in preg_match to extract it has been working
fine:
preg_match('/\((19|20)[0-9][0-9]\)/',$line,$found);
However, other times it is represented with Roman Numeral version
control when there is more than one version:
(2000/I)
or
(2000/II)
So far it looks like the version control goes out to three Roman
Numbers. Like I said, I didn't come up with this.
It would be just peachy if some kind person here could show me an
elegant way to handle this in PHP (as a regular expression?) which
might be, for example, either (2000) or (2000/V). Thanks in advance!
David Roth
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