Hi,
Saturday, February 4, 2006, 2:53:32 PM, you wrote:
p> Hi,
p> I'm still trying to get to grips with REGEX and have hit a hurdle with
p> the following:
p> I have this bit of text:
p> (\(EX\) RV-6 )
p> I want to remove the '\(EX\)' part of it
p> so leaving just: ( RV-6 )
p> Any suggestions wo
>>> > I have this bit of text:
>>> > (\(EX\) RV-6 )
>>> >
>>> > I want to remove the '\(EX\)' part of it
>>> > so leaving just: ( RV-6 )
$text = '(\(EX\) RV-6 )';
$str = str_replace('\(EX\)','',$text);
As Burhan put it, regex is not always the solution to your problem -
in most cases, using re
Alexis,
> Unfortunately, for what I'm trying to do, it is of little use. I
> probably should have mentioned that the bit of text I used is actually
> just part of a much bigger bit of text so exploding on a space would
> cause havoc with the rest of it. Hence the REGEX question.
$text = '
Hi Murray,
The length of text is quite long..it is in fact a 150+ page PDF file,
which as it's using an earlier version of PDF I can 'translate' into a
format that I can extract data from..it's just this one bit of text that
I'm stuck on. Yes it does appear multiple times, but the pattern is
Thanks for that...and yes that would do very nicely.
Unfortunately, for what I'm trying to do, it is of little use. I
probably should have mentioned that the bit of text I used is actually
just part of a much bigger bit of text so exploding on a space would
cause havoc with the rest of it. Hen
> > I have this bit of text:
> > (\(EX\) RV-6 )
> >
> > I want to remove the '\(EX\)' part of it
> > so leaving just: ( RV-6 )
$text = '(\(EX\) RV-6 )';
$str = str_replace('\(EX\)','',$text);
As Burhan put it, regex is not always the solution to your problem -
in most cases, using regex for this
phplists wrote:
Hi,
I'm still trying to get to grips with REGEX and have hit a hurdle with
the following:
I have this bit of text:
(\(EX\) RV-6 )
I want to remove the '\(EX\)' part of it
so leaving just: ( RV-6 )
$text = '(\(EX\) RV-6 )';
$bits = explode(' ',$text);
$leaving = '( '.$bits[0
Thanks for the options David.
I think I'll go for the last option as I'm determined to get to grips
with REGEX, and your first choice of REGEX won't work for me as the
'RV-6' bit can be too variable with what it contains, whereas the \(EX\)
bit IS more constant...it's only the EX bit that chan
I assume that the text inside can change around a fair bit. If the
string is of a fixed with or simple format you can just use substr() and
friends, it's simpler and faster.
That said, there is really two approaches that I can see with this string.
You can match on the spaces to extract the 'RV-
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