Thank you for the tips and the help. I really appriciate it. You
have given me something that I can use to learn regular expressions.
Thanks,
Robert
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:04:57 +0800, Jason Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 15 October 2004 10:35, Robet Carson wrote:
>
>
> > need a regexp to get the contents of this marker or one very simular:
> >
> > {!STATISTICS:starbucks!}
> >
> > what I am looking for is to get the "STATISTICS" and "starbucks" into
> > an array() if possible. I believe with the correct regexp this can be
> > accomplished using preg_split() or by getting the contents of the
> > marker and explode()'ing them. also i am looking to grab several
> > strings for a marker like this, for instance.
> >
> > {!STASTISTICS:starbucks:blended:chocolate!}
> >
> > Also if someone could direct me to a site that explains how to use and
> > create regexp in a small minded manor since I have been unable to
> > grasp the concepts.
>
> A few tips for starting out with regex:
>
> 1) use PCRE, they are faster and ultimately more useful than the POSIX variety
> 2) Build up your regex step-by-step and test it at each step to see what is
> being matched and what isn't (and why it isn't)
> 3) Use parentheses () to enclose the bits you want to 'capture' (extract).
> 4) Practice
> 5) More practice
>
> So for your first example, as a first draft you can just capture everything
> between the begin marker and the end marker:
>
> $doo = '{!STATISTICS:starbucks!}';
> preg_match('/\{!(.*)!\}/', $doo, $match)
>
> $match[1] now contains: STATISTICS:starbucks
>
> You can explode() it to get the constituent parts.
>
> Or you can refine your regex:
>
> preg_match('/\{!(.*):(.*)!\}/', $doo, $match)
>
> So basically your first draft would match a large chunk of stuff, your
> successive drafts would fine-tune it until eventually you're matching exactly
> what you need.
>
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