On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 16:08 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > For instance I want the parse this string > > Form = 'This is a bad bad thing, but not as bad as it would be if \"x = 5\", > so thats it',Connection=5 > > Into the strings > > Form > > = > > 'This is a bad bad thing, but not as bad as it would be if \"x=5\", so thats > it' > > , > > Connection > > = > > 5 > > using the php preg_split() finction. So, I first want to find a regex that > finds the commas I have split out (bit not the common in the quoted string, > and then for each substring put that through another version of preg_split() > which finds the = as delimeters. Again in the quoted string, I want to > ignore the x=5 equal sign. > > I actually did this in the end by the brute force method of scanning the > string character by character in php and using logic to determine where the > boundaries are. Its just a regex ought to be much more elegant.
Would be yet harder still if you correct your grammar and put the missing apostrophe in penultimate word, viz "that's" -- Michael Bane Atmospheric Physics Group University of Manchester -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
