Re: Re: String /pattern formatting extraction question

On 10/04/06, Andy <frum@ar-sd.net> wrote: > >> text1 /ptext2 /otext3 > > Does it always look like that? > > text1(whitespace)/ptext2(whitespace)/otext3 > > The ideea is to extract the texts before and between /o and /p. > $html = "asdäüü ö ö vf /pxtestxx/ostestss"; > eregi("^([^/.*]*)", $html, $reg); print_r($reg); //text is in reg[1] > eregi("^(.*)/p([^/.*]*)", $html, $reg); print_r($reg); //text is in reg[2] > eregi("^(.*)/o([^/.*]*)", $html, $reg); print_r($reg); //text is in reg[2] > > This example works, but I thought there might be a better way to extract the > texts, with a single ereg or preg_match. Well... slightly. preg_match( '#^(+)/p(.+)/o(.+)$#', preg_replace('#^(.+)(/o.+)(/p.+)$#', '$1$3$2', $html), $reg); -robin