If you have "TI: text ¶ TI: text2 ¶" as a string, my first example (if ereg
is greedy by nature) will match " text ¶ TI: text2 " as a single match. It
will be greedy and try to match as much text as it can between any TI: and ¶
character. The second example will match text, but only if it's not (hence
the ^ within [ and ]) the ¶ character. So, with the second, you'll end up
with two matches " text " and " text2 ".. which is what you want, right?
As for docs, just search anywhere for "regular expressions" and you can
learn the basics. The implementation of ereg_* vs. preg_* functions are a
little different, but once you learn the regular expression basics, you'll
be fine. The PHP docs for each set give some examples. phpbuilder.com also
has a good article on them.
---John Holmes...
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Taylor-Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] copy ...
> 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/
>
>
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