RE: [PHP] Regular Expression just one step away from what I need....

2007-08-17 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] I am no regex expert but wouldn't preg_match_all( "/'([^']+)'/Ui", $theString, $matches); Be more flexible? [/snip] Thanks all, I completely forgot about greedy/ungreedy. That is what you get for being rusty! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://

Re: [PHP] Regular Expression just one step away from what I need....

2007-08-17 Thread Geoff Nicol
I am no regex expert but wouldn't preg_match_all( "/'([^']+)'/Ui", $theString, $matches); Be more flexible? On 8/17/07, Thijs Lensselink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If it's only real words this will do: > > $theString = "'foo''bar''glorp'"; > preg_match_all( "/'([a-z]+)'/Ui", $theString, $ma

Re: [PHP] Regular Expression just one step away from what I need....

2007-08-17 Thread Robert Cummings
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 12:00 -0500, Jay Blanchard wrote: > Given the string 'foo''bar''glorp' (all quotes are single quotes)I had > hoped to find a regular expression using preg_match that would return an > array containing just those words without having to go through > additional gyrations, like e

Re: [PHP] Regular Expression just one step away from what I need....

2007-08-17 Thread Thijs Lensselink
Jay Blanchard wrote: > Given the string 'foo''bar''glorp' (all quotes are single quotes)I had > hoped to find a regular expression using preg_match that would return an > array containing just those words without having to go through > additional gyrations, like exploding a string to get an array.

[PHP] Regular Expression just one step away from what I need....

2007-08-17 Thread Jay Blanchard
Given the string 'foo''bar''glorp' (all quotes are single quotes)I had hoped to find a regular expression using preg_match that would return an array containing just those words without having to go through additional gyrations, like exploding a string to get an array. I have only had limited luck