Re: regex match

If all you need is the serial, and it's the only 10 digit number ... I changed it to this and it worked for me, on Linux (redhat). preg_match('/([0-9]{10})/',$result,$serial); I didn't have a FreeBSD box to test it on, but I'm pretty sure this would still work, due to the serial being the only 10 digit number. HTH, der Ritter aka: Jason k Larson Chris Knipe wrote:

Lo all, I need some quick help with a regex match... Mainly because of the fact that the output between RH and FreeBSD is different for a command.... My output: root@netsphere:/# /usr/bin/host -t soa abc.com 192.168.1.1 Using domain server 192.168.1.1:

abc.com start of authority      ns01.blah some.email(
                        2003041901      ;serial (version)
                        10800   ;refresh period
                        3600    ;retry refresh this often
                        604800  ;expiration period
                        10800   ;minimum TTL
                        )

the function: function DigSerial($server,$zone) { global $config; $result = $config->binhost -t soa '$zone' '$server'; if(ereg("try again",$result)) {

    return $result;

} else {

    preg_match("/.*SOA [^\s\t]+ [^\s\t]+ ([^\s\t]+)/",$result,$serial);
    if($serial[1]) {
      return $serial[1];
    } else {
      return 'not available';
    }

} } Now, on RH, the function will work, seeing that RH's host -t returns the SOA in one line... FreeBSD however doesn't... Any good regex's around for this? I only need the serial number... Just the numbers. -- me