Re: Regular Expressions
| From: | Red Wingate | Date: | Thu, 15 Jul 2004 20:13:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Regular Expressions | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.general |
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Yep, but to avoid his problem with empty Strings he should use
something like:
/Last Name: *(.*?)\n/
outerwise \s* will match the first newline and continue to the end
of the next line !
Tim Van Wassenhove wrote:
In article <20040715144024.00007d80@ariktab>, Arik Raffael Funke wrote:implement following pattern "Last Name:\s*(.*)\n".I get just 'Jason'. But what I currently get is: Jason Street: abcThis is behaviour because (.*) is greedy. As you noticed, it matched "Jason \nStreet:abc" /Last Name:\s+(.*?)\n/