Hello again,
I know that I keep asking for regexp advice from the group. I hope you'll forgive me. I just want to get some more feedback before I put one of these in a production environment.
Here's the situation. I'm encoding files (base 64 encoding) to put them into a database. I want to also include some metadata with the encoded string, namely filename and mime type. Here's an example of the format I decided to use.
"filename: somefilename.txt;mime-type: text/plain; data: VGhpcyBpcyBhbiBlbmNvZGVkIHN0cmluZw=="
So, I think the regexp that would allow me to extract the filename, mime-type, and the data itself, is this:
/^filename:\s+([-_.a-zA-Z0-9]+);mime-type:\s+([-_/a-zA-Z0-9]+);data:\s(.*)$/
I'm not a regexp guru, but I think this should work. If there's something I'm missing, I hope people will let me know. Also, are those character classes sufficient for filenames and mime-types respectively?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks, Lloyd Brown
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