Re: vertical word match SOLUTION

I can't take full credit for this. i asked a fellow perl programmer and he muttered the words, "why bother searching for newlines and spaces". so, now searching for any layout of the word will work. $answer = "hello\na\np\np\nl\ne\n"; /*from textarea in form*/ /* replace all whitespace and newlines with nothing */ $tempanswer = preg_replace("/\s*|\n*/","",$answer); $word = "apple"; /* match on the new condensed answer */ preg_match("/".$word."/i",$tempanswer,$match) and this works for "red apple" as well. thanks, joe 'Joe Rice'(riceja@water-melon.net)@Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 10:09:55AM -0500: > > i though i had tried this. but, i just did again and it > still isn't matching. I've read that browsers send > different things for the newline from <textarea> but, i've > tried > Netscape,IE on windows > Netscape, Mozilla on Solaris > > I really think what i have should work. > $word gets set to > > (.?|\s*|\n*|)r(.?|\s*|\n*|)(.?|\s*|\n*|)e(.?|\s*|\n*|)(.?|\s*|\n*|)d(.?|\s*|\n*|)(.?|\s*|\n*|) > (.?|\s*|\n*|)(.?|\s*|\n*|)a(.?|\s*|\n*|)(.?|\s*|\n*|)p(.?|\s*|\n*|)(.?|\s*|\n*|)p(.?|\s*|\n*|)(.?|\s*|\n*|)l(.?|\s*|\n*|)(.?|\s*|\n*|)e(.?|\s*|\n*|) > > > (match 0 or 1 of anything | match 0 or more of any white space | match 0 or more of newline) > r > (match 0 or 1 of anything | match 0 or more of any white space | match 0 or more of newline) > e > (match 0 or 1 of anything | match 0 or more of any white space | match 0 or more of newline) > d > (match 0 or 1 of anything | match 0 or more of any white space | match 0 or more of newline) > > (match 0 or 1 of anything | match 0 or more of any white space | match 0 or more of newline) > a > > > and so on... > the only thing i can think of is the "space" between the words that > i'm not matching. > > if anyone can help, i would appreciate it. > thanks, > joe > > > Martin Towell(martin.towell@world.net)@Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 04:06:03PM +1000: > > try changing the "+"'s with "*"'s > > + = 1 or more > > * = 0 or more > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Joe Rice [mailto:riceja@water-melon.net] > > Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 3:30 PM > > To: php-general@lists.php.net > > Subject: [PHP] vertical word match > > > > > > > > hello, > > any regex gurus? > > i'm trying to match words put into a <textarea> > > that are in the form of a\np\np\l\e > > or any combination of new lines in between, before > > or after. > > > > $answer = "hello\na\np\np\nl\ne\n"; /*from textarea in form*/ > > $word = "apple"; > > $word = preg_replace("/(.)/","(.?|\s+|\n+|)$1(.?|\s+|\n+|)",$word); > > preg_match("/".$word."/im",$answer,$match) > > > > works. > > but if > > > > $word = "red apple"; > > $answer = "r\ne\nd\n\na\np\np\nl\e"; > > > > it doesn't match. > > > > > > thanks in advance, > > joe > > > > -- > > 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 > > > > -- > How do i get rid of those words in my screen that are coming from you? > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- How do i get rid of those words in my screen that are coming from you?