RE: [PHP] pcre pattern match help
| From: | John W. Holmes | Date: | Tue, 17 Dec 2002 23:21:02 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] pcre pattern match help | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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> I would like to do a pattern match against a string, sometimes this
> pattern
> will include the full string, and sometimes it will not, if the
pattern
> does
> not include the second match I still want to get the first pattern
match.
>
> Below is my code, and the results I am looking for.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Max
>
> preg_match ("/\:\[(\S+)\]\:(\S*)/",$transport,$matches);
Make the part after the closing ] optional.
preg_match("/\:\[(\S+)\](\:(\S*))?/",$transport,$matches
$matches[1] should be the IP and $matches[3] should be the port, if it
exists.
---John W. Holmes...
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