RE: [PHP] regex brain-toot

2006-06-19 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Do you have to use ereg? The preg_match pattern I posted works fine. It will return an array, first element being the whole string it matched, next element will be what it matched _inside_ the parentheses (less the parentheses) (if it matches anything that is). [/snip] Thanks Johnth

Re: [PHP] regex brain-toot

2006-06-19 Thread John Nichel
Jay Blanchard wrote: [snip] Anot PCRE. Can't help you there, as I've never used the ereg functions. However... preg_match ( "/\((\d{1,}.*?)\)/", "Upper Voltage (124.1)", $regs ); [/snip] Still returns parentheses ereg("[^\(][0-9\.]*" , "Upper Voltage (124.1)", $regs ); gets rid of

RE: [PHP] regex brain-toot

2006-06-19 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Anot PCRE. Can't help you there, as I've never used the ereg functions. However... preg_match ( "/\((\d{1,}.*?)\)/", "Upper Voltage (124.1)", $regs ); [/snip] Still returns parentheses ereg("[^\(][0-9\.]*" , "Upper Voltage (124.1)", $regs ); gets rid of opening bracket, but e

Re: [PHP] regex brain-toot

2006-06-19 Thread John Nichel
Jay Blanchard wrote: [snip] \(([0-9]*)\) [/snip] I had done this before and still get the parenthesis... ereg("\(([0-9]*)\)", "Upper Voltage (124.1)", $regs); Anot PCRE. Can't help you there, as I've never used the ereg functions. However... preg_match ( "/\((\d{1,}.*?)\)/", "U

RE: [PHP] regex brain-toot

2006-06-19 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] You won't match the dot btw: \(([.0-9]*)\) Which is crude since it will match more than one dot :) [/snip] Typo on my part \(([0-9\.]*)\)...but still gets parenthesis -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP] regex brain-toot

2006-06-19 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] \(([0-9]*)\) [/snip] I had done this before and still get the parenthesis... ereg("\(([0-9]*)\)", "Upper Voltage (124.1)", $regs); -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] regex brain-toot

2006-06-19 Thread Robert Cummings
On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 14:42, John Nichel wrote: > Jay Blanchard wrote: > > I have a field that contains a value in parenthesis', but also contains > > other text, for instance; (it is a legacy app that I am working with, > > and by legacy I am saying pre-1980) > > > > Upper voltage (124.1) > > >

Re: [PHP] regex brain-toot

2006-06-19 Thread John Nichel
Jay Blanchard wrote: I have a field that contains a value in parenthesis', but also contains other text, for instance; (it is a legacy app that I am working with, and by legacy I am saying pre-1980) Upper voltage (124.1) I know that \([0-9]*\) will get me (124.1), but I am totally forgetting ho

[PHP] regex brain-toot

2006-06-19 Thread Jay Blanchard
I have a field that contains a value in parenthesis', but also contains other text, for instance; (it is a legacy app that I am working with, and by legacy I am saying pre-1980) Upper voltage (124.1) I know that \([0-9]*\) will get me (124.1), but I am totally forgetting how to get 124.1 without