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On 20 January 2005 20:36, Tim Boring wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 14:40, Bret Hughes wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 12:43, Jason Wong wrote:
> > > On Friday 21 January 2005 02:1
Tim Boring wrote:
Hello! I'm having an odd regex problem. Here's a summary of what I'm
trying to accomplish:
I've got a report file generated from our business management system
(Progress 4GL), one fixed-width record per line. I've got a php script
that reads in the raw file one line at a time,
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 15:13, Michael Sims wrote:
> Tim Boring wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 13:41, Jason Wong wrote:
> >> I suspect what you want to be doing is something like this:
> >>
> >> switch (TRUE) {
> >> case ANY_EXPRESSION_THAT_EVALUATES_TO_TRUE:
> >> ...
> >> }
> >
> > Tha
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 14:06, Bret Hughes wrote:
>
> I think I see a possible explanation for the behavior. preg_replace
> does not return a true or false value it returns the string passed as
> the subject with any matched replacements done. Hmm the manual says it
> better:
>
> If matches are
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 13:43, Jason Wong wrote:
> On Friday 21 January 2005 02:16, Tim Boring wrote:
>
> > It's perfectly legit to use expressions. Now perhaps there is something
> > wrong with the regex I'm trying to use, but using a regex in and of
> > itself is legal.
> > http://www.php.net/man
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 14:40, Bret Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 12:43, Jason Wong wrote:
> > On Friday 21 January 2005 02:16, Tim Boring wrote:
> >
> > > It's perfectly legit to use expressions. Now perhaps there is something
> > > wrong with the regex I'm trying to use, but using a regex
Tim Boring wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 13:41, Jason Wong wrote:
>> I suspect what you want to be doing is something like this:
>>
>> switch (TRUE) {
>> case ANY_EXPRESSION_THAT_EVALUATES_TO_TRUE:
>> ...
>> }
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm not sure that does what I'm looking
>
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 13:21, Tim Boring wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 13:41, Jason Wong wrote:
> > On Friday 21 January 2005 01:52, Tim Boring wrote:
> >
> > Well the biggest problem in your code right now is your incomprehensible
> > (to
> > me anyway) use of the switch construct. For a start
Tim Boring wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 13:41, Jason Wong wrote:
>> On Friday 21 January 2005 01:52, Tim Boring wrote:
>>
>> Well the biggest problem in your code right now is your incomprehensible
>> (to
>> me anyway) use of the switch construct. For a start I've no idea why
>> you're
>> using .
On Friday 21 January 2005 03:21, Tim Boring wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 13:41, Jason Wong wrote:
> > On Friday 21 January 2005 01:52, Tim Boring wrote:
> >
> > Well the biggest problem in your code right now is your incomprehensible
> > (to me anyway) use of the switch construct. For a start I'v
Tim Boring wrote:
> It's perfectly legit to use expressions. Now perhaps there is something
> wrong with the regex I'm trying to use, but using a regex in and of
> itself is legal.
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.switch.php
Ah...
Well, the User Contributed notes provide some ex
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 12:43, Jason Wong wrote:
> On Friday 21 January 2005 02:16, Tim Boring wrote:
>
> > It's perfectly legit to use expressions. Now perhaps there is something
> > wrong with the regex I'm trying to use, but using a regex in and of
> > itself is legal.
> > http://www.php.net/man
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 13:41, Jason Wong wrote:
> On Friday 21 January 2005 01:52, Tim Boring wrote:
>
> Well the biggest problem in your code right now is your incomprehensible (to
> me anyway) use of the switch construct. For a start I've no idea why you're
> using ...
>
> > switch ($line)
On Friday 21 January 2005 02:16, Tim Boring wrote:
> It's perfectly legit to use expressions. Now perhaps there is something
> wrong with the regex I'm trying to use, but using a regex in and of
> itself is legal.
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.switch.php
Yes, but comparing th
On Friday 21 January 2005 01:52, Tim Boring wrote:
> To try to help spot the issue, I put in the if(preg_match("/^\W+/",
> $line)) logic, and the weird thing is that this logic isn't outputting
> the line beginning with things like "AKRN", yet the same line is getting
> caught in the switch statem
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 12:59, Richard Lynch wrote:
> Tim Boring wrote:
> > Hello! I'm having an odd regex problem. Here's a summary of what I'm
> > trying to accomplish:
>
> > switch ($line)
> > {
> > case ($total_counter <= 5):
> > break;
> >case preg_match("/^\W+
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 11:59, Richard Lynch wrote:
> Tim Boring wrote:
> > Hello! I'm having an odd regex problem. Here's a summary of what I'm
> > trying to accomplish:
>
> > switch ($line)
> > {
> > case ($total_counter <= 5):
> > break;
> >case preg_match("/^\W+
Tim Boring wrote:
> Hello! I'm having an odd regex problem. Here's a summary of what I'm
> trying to accomplish:
> switch ($line)
> {
> case ($total_counter <= 5):
> break;
>case preg_match("/^\W+/", $line):
While it would be Really Nifty (tm) if PHP worked this
Hello! I'm having an odd regex problem. Here's a summary of what I'm
trying to accomplish:
I've got a report file generated from our business management system
(Progress 4GL), one fixed-width record per line. I've got a php script
that reads in the raw file one line at a time, and "strips" out
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