Re: regular expressions

If you want to be able to use non-greedy expressions, you can use the perl-style regular expression functions. Also, try using a regular expression that is a little more restrictive:

        eregi ('<!--CODE:([^:->]+)-->', $line, $regs);

HTH, Zak At 12:54 PM 5/19/00 -0400, Victor wrote:

t doesn't work because I have many of these comments thus <!--CODE:0001--> <!--CODE:AB01--> this regexp graps "CODE:0001--><!--CODE:AB01" I have no idea why this is happening. But php did have similar problems on Sparc Solaris before. I still don't get why things like .+? aren't supported, even though they are in posix regexp (I think). This .+ seems to be greedy and graps as many things as it can. That's not the behavior I want. Jason Stechschulte wrote: There is a man page included with the php distribution. It is regex.7 I'm not sure what your problem is though. Why is what you put not working? -----Original Message----- From: Victor [mailto:victord@wwcd.com] Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 11:28 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-GENERAL] regular expressions I need to grab a comment <!--CODE:0001--> How can I do non-greed char match .* ?? I did this eregi("<!--CODE\:(.+)-->",$text,$regs); How can I do .+? or something of that nature ??? P.S. Is there a help doc on PHP specific regexp. The O'Reilly book on regular expressions doesn't seem to apply! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net