Re: [PHP] regular expression question

2007-09-01 Thread Richard Heyes
But how? The +[a-z]{2,} seems to allow at least two a-z clusters, but it doesn't include a period. /ml Almost correct. The plus belongs to whatever comes before it, not after. So what you're referring to as matching two or more characters but not the period, is this: [a-z]{2,} And this will

Re: [PHP] regular expression question

2007-08-31 Thread Per Jessen
Matthew Lasar wrote: > At 11:32 AM 8/31/2007, Per Jessen wrote: >>Matthew Lasar wrote: >> >> > But I don't understand why the second half of the regular >> > expression works. I'm talking about this part: >> > >> > @([-a-z0-9]+\.)+[a-z]{2,}/"; >> > >> > why is it able to detect repeated sections o

Re: [PHP] regular expression question

2007-08-31 Thread Matthew Lasar
At 11:32 AM 8/31/2007, Per Jessen wrote: Matthew Lasar wrote: > But I don't understand why the second half of the regular expression > works. I'm talking about this part: > > @([-a-z0-9]+\.)+[a-z]{2,}/"; > > why is it able to detect repeated sections of the email address after > "@" that are sep

Re: [PHP] regular expression question

2007-08-31 Thread Per Jessen
Matthew Lasar wrote: > But I don't understand why the second half of the regular expression > works. I'm talking about this part: > > @([-a-z0-9]+\.)+[a-z]{2,}/"; > > why is it able to detect repeated sections of the email address after > "@" that are separated by periods? like "@email.alaska.co

Re: [PHP] Regular expression question

2005-08-11 Thread Leon Vismer
Hi Robin Many thanks for this, how would one extend this to support the following: $str = "insert into userComment (userID, userName, userSurname) values (0, 'Leon', 'mcDonald')"; one does not want $str = "insert into user_comment (user_id, user_name, user_surname) values (0, 'Leon', 'mc_dona

Re: [PHP] Regular expression question

2005-08-11 Thread Robin Vickery
On 8/11/05, Leon Vismer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I would like to convert from one naming convention within a sql statement to > another. > > I have the following, > > > $str = "insert into userComment (userID, userName, userSurname) values (0, > 'Leon', 'Vismer')"; > > $match = arra

Re: [PHP] Regular expression question

2005-08-11 Thread Leon Vismer
Hi > Just a quick note; why dont' you search on "user" since it's the constant > and replace 'user[A-Z]' with 'user_[a-z]' or in the case of userID > 'user[A-Z]{2}' This is part of my problem user will not always be constant, I basically want to be able to change between two naming conventions.

Re: [PHP] Regular expression question

2005-08-11 Thread b-bonini
n Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Leon Vismer wrote: > Hi > > I would like to convert from one naming convention within a sql statement to > another. > > I have the following, > > > $str = "insert into userComment (userID, userName, userSurname) values (0, > 'Leon', 'Vismer')"; > > $match = array( > "/([a-z]+)

Re: [PHP] Regular expression question

2004-05-27 Thread Justin Patrin
Rob Ellis wrote: On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 09:59:05AM -0700, Dan Phiffer wrote: So I'm trying to implement a simple wiki-like syntax for hyperlinking. Basically I want to match stuff like [this], where the word 'this' gets turned into a hyperlink. I have that working, but I want to be able to esca

Re: [PHP] Regular expression question

2004-05-27 Thread Rob Ellis
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 09:59:05AM -0700, Dan Phiffer wrote: > So I'm trying to implement a simple wiki-like syntax for hyperlinking. > Basically I want to match stuff like [this], where the word 'this' gets > turned into a hyperlink. I have that working, but I want to be able to > escape the op

Re: [PHP] Regular expression question

2003-08-04 Thread Dan Phiffer
Actually, this is for a general purpose templating that might use < and > or [ and ] (i.e. [element attribute="value"]), but I suppose the same character entity requirement could be applied to other "boundary characters." Somehow it didn't occur to me. Thanks for the response, -Dan "Jim Lucas" <[

Re: [PHP] Regular expression question

2003-08-04 Thread Jim Lucas
well, first off '>' should not be allowed as a value of an attr="" pair anyways. You should convert it to > or < this will solve that problem. Jim Lucas - Original Message - From: "Dan Phiffer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 4:03 PM Subject: [PH

Re: [PHP] regular expression question

2002-11-01 Thread John Nichel
It might, you should test it to find out. John Meyer wrote: I've got a regexp: (EV[0-9]{2})!([0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2})!(GR[0-9]{2}).txt My question is, will it match this: EV01!2002-11-09!VR01!GR01.txt And anything formatted like this: (EV02, and so forth). -- PHP General Mailing L

Re: [PHP] Regular expression question

2001-11-09 Thread Jack Dempsey
What is $num going to be? A number? So how do you determine where that number ends and where there shouldn't be another number in front of it...are there any restrictions on the size of $num? say $num is 51 then you're saying that you want to match 51:: but not 151:: however, what if $num is 151?

RE: [PHP] Regular Expression Question

2001-07-25 Thread Matthew Loff
eturns "bcd" -Original Message- From: Seb Frost [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 5:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; PHP Subject: RE: [PHP] Regular Expression Question I hope my later message clarifys what I mean. - seb -Original Message- From: Jeff O

RE: [PHP] Regular Expression Question

2001-07-25 Thread Seb Frost
I hope my later message clarifys what I mean. - seb -Original Message- From: Jeff Oien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 July 2001 22:05 To: PHP Subject: RE: [PHP] Regular Expression Question Aren't the trims just for white space? Jeff Oien > since you know exactly

RE: [PHP] Regular Expression Question

2001-07-25 Thread Jeff Oien
Aren't the trims just for white space? Jeff Oien > since you know exactly which 4 characters you want to keep you can use a > simple string trimming routine. I forget the name of the function in php > but it's there and it'll be something like > > trimstring($string,1,5); > > or something like

RE: [PHP] Regular Expression Question correction

2001-07-25 Thread Seb Frost
$newstring = substr($string,1,4); FOUR, not FIVE. Doh. -Original Message- From: Seb Frost [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 July 2001 22:03 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; PHP Subject: RE: [PHP] Regular Expression Question since you know exactly which 4 characters you want to keep you can

RE: [PHP] Regular Expression Question

2001-07-25 Thread Seb Frost
since you know exactly which 4 characters you want to keep you can use a simple string trimming routine. $newstring = substr($string,1,5); No need for complicated regular expressions! - seb -Original Message- From: Jeff Oien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 July 2001 21:47 To: PHP S