Do you really want to pursue the solution you're using? A solution with
preg_replace_callback() would probably be a lot faster and easier to manage.
If that doesn't matter, just let me know and I'll look over your code to try
and figure out what's going on. I don't have time right now, though, to do
it.
---John Holmes...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Keller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 5:09 PM
Subject: RE: [PHP] Odd Strpos Behavior
> At 12/11/2002 08:09 PM, you wrote:
>
> >Okay, so how do you know what to replace something like [author] with?
> >What exactly are you doing again? I've forgotten the original question.
> >:)
>
> Ok, got a sentence, like:
>
> a pile of [metal] 600 feet wide and 30 feet tall. On top of it is
> a [monster].
>
> The items in the [] represent the names of files containing lists of
> possible results. So I need to grab the first one, "metal," open up
> "metal.php," grab a random item from it, such as "gold," and replace
> [metal] in the original sentence with the result. I should now have:
>
> a pile of gold 600 feet wide and 30 feet tall. On top of it is a
> [monster].
>
> Now, what I was doing before was strpos'ing the []'s and grabbing what as
> in between to be the file name, then repeating in a loop until I've
> eliminated all of the [] items. The reason I'm doing it in a loop is
> because the results of the "metal.php" random item may include their own
[]
> items, which also need to be run exactly the same way. A result might be
> "gold [objects]" and then I have to run through the objects.php file and
> get a result from that.
>
> This is what I started with:
>
> <?
> $a = "[adjective] [beginning]"; // temporary item for testing
>
> $e = strpos($a,"]");
> while ($e) {
> echo "A: ".$a."<br />";
> echo "E: ".$e."<br />";
> $f = strpos($a, "[");
> echo "F: ".$f."<br />";
> $tmp = substr($a, 0, $f);
> $table=substr($a, $f+1, $e-1);
> echo "Table: ".$table."<br />";
> $a = substr($a, $e+1, strlen($a));
> $dataFile = $table.".php";
> //$b = getFileElement($dataFile);
> $tmp .= $b;
> $tmp .= $a;
> $a = $tmp;
> $e = strpos($a,"]");
> }
> echo $a;
> ?>
>
> That should work just fine. I cut out everything up to the first [ and add
> it to $tmp. Then I get the next sequence of characters up to the first ]
> and use it as a file name for the "getFileElement" function. Add the
result
> to $tmp, add what was left after the first ], and viola.
>
> My problem is that, on the first loop through, strpos returns exactly
where
> the first ] is, so I can chop up to that no problem. However, the second
> time through the loop, it's one off, which breaks the logic of the loop, I
> end up with "beginning]" as my file name.
> --
> S. Keller
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