What about
eregi("TI(.*)¶",$line,$m)
might want to use
eregi("TI([^¶]*)¶",$line,$m)
so it's not greedy.
---John Holmes...
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From: "John Taylor-Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] copy ...
> Perl, I will never touch again :) Find occurence of "TI:" and "¶" in the
string $textarea and extract it only. The problem is the user may have
entered \r\n. Therefore making \n out of the question to use as my end
marker.
>
> John
>
> Marek Kilimajer wrote:
>
> > I have a strong feeling that POSIX regexs cannot do multiline, try using
> > perl-compatible, or make a loop to read the textarea content line by
line
> >
> > John Taylor-Johnston wrote:
> >
> > >I need to process the contents of <textarea name="textarea">
> > >
> > ><textarea name="textarea">SU: something ... blah blah¶
> > >TI: Title ... asasa asasas asas¶
> > >AU: author field ... asasasas¶
> > ></textarea>
> > >
> > >I want to filter $textarea. I need to change my code below to grab
everything between "TI:" and "¶", but not including "¶" :
> > >
> > >I have this code.
> > >
> > >--------snip------------
> > >
> > >filter_strings("TI: ", $textarea)
> > >
> > >function filter_strings($tofilter,$line){
> > > if(eregi('^'.$tofilter.' (.*)$',$line,$m)) {
> > > $filtered=$m[1];
> > > return $filtered;
> > > }
> > >}
> > >
> > >
> > >--
> > >John Taylor-Johnston
> >
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