Hi, all -- Can I compile a regexp as I can in perl?
We have various possible values that we want to strip out of a string and
we store them in an array so that users can update with their own. To
wit:
$noadobe =
array
(
"File written by Adobe Photoshop",
"LEAD Technologies Inc." ,
"more pesky text" ,
) ;
We want to make it easy on the users, so we're not going to figure any
regular expressions belong in there; I'll just use a greedy .* to suck up
everything that starts with any of these matches.
In my code I can certainly
$noadoberegexp = "(" . join("|",$noadobe) . ").*" ;
and then
$cleanstring = eregi_replace("$noadoberegexp","",$stripstring) ;
but 1) I haven't tested this code yet :-) and 2) I wonder if I'll run
into long runtimes when we get lots of strings to match.
TIA & HAND
:-D
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