Captn John,
What the difference? I recognise the code from my attempts at Perl. What's the diff
between ^ and *? Is there a doc I can read up more on?
;) Swabbie John
"Cpt John W. Holmes" wrote:
> What about
>
> eregi("TI(.*)¶",$line,$m)
>
> might want to use
>
> eregi("TI([^¶]*)¶",$line,$m)
>
> so it's not greedy.
>
> ---John Holmes...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Taylor-Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 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
> > > >Université de Sherbrooke:
> > > >http://compcanlit.ca/
--
PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/)
To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
