RE: [PHP] Regex help

Hey, Thanks guys. I did search on google first for a tutorial, problem is with something as widely used as regular expressions there are LOTS of results...I felt it would be better to ask if anyone has a favourite.. ie: if you learnt it off the web and not via the manual. The last time I had this problem was with cookies and sessions, I found the links I got from the people on this list much better than the examples in the manual...after learning from the web I did go back to the manual and understood thing much better. Cheers, -Ryan On 3/15/2004 6:18:38 PM, Chris W. Parker (cparker@swatgear.com) wrote: > Ryan A <mailto:ryan@coinpass.com> > on Monday, March 15, 2004 9:07 AM said: > > > I know this is pretty easy to do but I am horrorable at working with > > regular expressions and was wondering if anybody might take a min to > > help please. > > in that case you should get the regex coach (easy to find via google). > it's great! > > > I will have a variable: $the_extention > > which will have a value like: 98797-234234--2c-something-2c > > > > How do I take out the part which will always start with "--2c" and > > will always end with "-2c" > > by using () around the part you want to grab. > > <?php > > $string = "98797-234234--2c-something-2c"; > > $pattern = "/\d{5}-\d{6}--2c-(.*)-2c/"; > > preg_match($pattern, $string, $matches); > > print_r($matches); > > ?> > > > A good "baby steps" tutorial on regex too would be appreciated. > > there's > lots of those. google can help you find them. try > "regular > expression tutorial" or some variant of that. > > > hth, > chris. > > p.s. i think you want extension not extention. :) > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/)