Wow, Thank you for the explanation, it helped out a lot ;) I don't know regex very well, but I hope that this will give me a better understanding of it. Thank you Yet again, Mike
-----Original Message----- From: Tech Support [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:26 PM To: Mike; PHP List Subject: Re: [PHP] String Manipulation okay... the break down the regexp: '(.*(\(|\[)|(\)|\]).*)' .* = any character from zero to infinite number of times (\(|\[) = either ( or [ (they are escaped with a "\" bcz they have other meaning then I have another pipe "|" meaning "or" (\)|\]) = either ) or ] .* = again... any char any # of times if you want only the parenthesis or the brackets removed just leave out the ".*" in the regexp. the ${$data}was only there in my example working code bcz I had 6 vars named $string1 through $string6. I wanted to call each of them in a loop but you can't say $string$i. I said $data = "string" . $i., which would translate to just a string like this "string1". I could have just used $$data, which is the same as saying $string1 but I hate to use the double "$$" because it looks bad. Sorry if I threw you off. You can just do it like this: $text_out = ereg_replace('(.*(\(|\[)|(\)|\]).*)', '', $text_in); Jim Grill Support Web-1 Hosting http://www.web-1hosting.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Tech Support'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "PHP List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 10:48 AM Subject: RE: [PHP] String Manipulation > Ok, It works and everything, but I just was wondering: > $data = ereg_replace('(.*(\(|\[)|(\)|\]).*)', '', ${$data}); > --------------------------------------------------^ ^ > what does this do exactly, I see that you are replacing all the > characters [] and () but what is the ${$data} for? > Also for future reference is there a way that you could return the > string with all the parentheses stripped out? > Thank You again, > Mike > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > And what would be > -----Original Message----- > From: Tech Support [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 11:39 AM > To: Mike; PHP List > Subject: Re: [PHP] String Manipulation > > I tested this out with success. > $string = ereg_replace('(.*(\(|\[)|(\)|\]).*)', '', $string); > > ################### > // Here is actual working code > $string1 = "(Something) - is wrong with me"; > $string2 = "something - (is wrong with me)"; > $string3 = "something - (is wrong with me"; > $string4 = "[something] - is wrong with me"; > $string5 = "something - [is wrong with me]"; > $string6 = "something - [is wrong with me"; > for ($i = 1; $i < 7; $i++) > { > $data = "string" . $i; > $data = ereg_replace('(.*(\(|\[)|(\)|\]).*)', '', ${$data}); // the > magic > line. feed it the string(s). > print "<b>$i)</b> $data<br>"; > } > ################### > > Jim Grill > Support > Web-1 Hosting > http://www.web-1hosting.net > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PHP List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 10:13 AM > Subject: [PHP] String Manipulation > > > > Hello all, > > I know that this has probably been discussed before and that you will > > tell me to go through all the back messages on the list but I really > > don't have time to do that because I am on a really tight schedule, > but > > I was wondering if anyone could give me some pointers on how to pull > > some information out of a string. I have something like this: > > (Something) - is wrong with me > > or > > something - (is wrong with me) > > or > > something - (is wrong with me > > > > what I need to know how to do is take the stuff that is inside the > > Brackets (or partial brackets) and put them into another string > > the way I am currently doing it is like this: > > Variable names have been changed per my boss(My Boss wanted me to > change > > them for some reason) > > <? > > $parenpos = strpos($tartist,")"); > > $bracketpos = strpos($tartist,"]"); > > if($parenpos){ > > $artist = trim(substr($tartist,0,$parenpos)); > > $title = trim(substr($tartist,$parenpos+3)); > > $secondparenpos = strpos($title,"("); > > $secondbracketpos = strpos($tartist,"["); > > $title = trim(substr($title,0,$secondparenpos)); > > }elseif($bracketpos){ > > $artist = chop(substr($tartist,1,$bracketpos-1)); > > $title = trim(substr($tartist,$bracketpos+3)); > > } > > ?> > > > > I know that there has to be a shorter version of this, can anyone help > > me out with it? > > > > Thank You, > > Mike > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
