Re: copy ...

John Thanks. John "CPT John W. Holmes" wrote: > If you have "TI: text ¶ TI: text2 ¶" as a string, my first example (if ereg > is greedy by nature) will match " text ¶ TI: text2 " as a single match. It > will be greedy and try to match as much text as it can between any TI: and ¶ > character. The second example will match text, but only if it's not (hence > the ^ within [ and ]) the ¶ character. So, with the second, you'll end up > with two matches " text " and " text2 ".. which is what you want, right? > > As for docs, just search anywhere for "regular expressions" and you can > learn the basics. The implementation of ereg_* vs. preg_* functions are a > little different, but once you learn the regular expression basics, you'll > be fine. The PHP docs for each set give some examples. phpbuilder.com also > has a good article on them. > > ---John Holmes... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Taylor-Johnston" <taylorjo@collegesherbrooke.qc.ca> > To: <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 2:54 PM > Subject: Re: [PHP] copy ... > > > Captn John, > > What the difference? I recognise the code from my attempts at Perl. What's > the diff between ^ and *? Is there a doc I can read up more on? > > ;) Swabbie John > > > > "Cpt John W. Holmes" wrote: > > > > > What about > > > > > > eregi("TI(.*)¶",$line,$m) > > > > > > might want to use > > > > > > eregi("TI([^¶]*)¶",$line,$m) > > > > > > so it's not greedy. > > > > > > ---John Holmes... > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "John Taylor-Johnston" <taylorjo@collegesherbrooke.qc.ca> > > > To: <php-general@lists.php.net> > > > Cc: <jt.johnston@usherbrooke.ca> > > > Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 2:31 PM > > > Subject: Re: [PHP] copy ... > > > > > > > Perl, I will never touch again :) Find occurence of "TI:" and > > > > "¶" in > the > > > string $textarea and extract it only. The problem is the user may have > > > entered \r\n. Therefore making \n out of the question to use as my end > > > marker. > > > > > > > > John > > > > > > > > Marek Kilimajer wrote: > > > > > > > > > I have a strong feeling that POSIX regexs cannot do multiline, try > using > > > > > perl-compatible, or make a loop to read the textarea content line by > > > line > > > > > > > > > > John Taylor-Johnston wrote: > > > > > > > > > > >I need to process the contents of <textarea > > > > > >name="textarea"> > > > > > > > > > > > ><textarea name="textarea">SU: something ... blah blah¶ > > > > > >TI: Title ... asasa asasas asas¶ > > > > > >AU: author field ... asasasas¶ > > > > > ></textarea> > > > > > > > > > > > >I want to filter $textarea. I need to change my code below to grab > > > everything between "TI:" and "¶", but not including > > > "¶" : > > > > > > > > > > > >I have this code. > > > > > > > > > > > >--------snip------------ > > > > > > > > > > > >filter_strings("TI: ", $textarea) > > > > > > > > > > > >function filter_strings($tofilter,$line){ > > > > > > if(eregi('^'.$tofilter.' (.*)$',$line,$m)) { > > > > > > $filtered=$m[1]; > > > > > > return $filtered; > > > > > > } > > > > > >} > > > > > >John Taylor-Johnston > > > > > >Université de Sherbrooke: > > > > > >http://compcanlit.ca/ > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- John Taylor-Johnston ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If it's not open-source, it's Murphy's Law." ' ' ' Collège de Sherbrooke: ô¿ô http://www.collegesherbrooke.qc.ca/languesmodernes/ - Université de Sherbrooke: http://compcanlit.ca/ 819-569-2064