Re: Getting Results from function; snickers != buttery !

On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 01:54:09 -0500 (EST), Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams (ignacio@openservices.net) wrote: >On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Kevin Leavell wrote: > >> Thanks for working with me here but I need a little more help. >> >> >> $value=ereg_replace('[^>]*value="([^"]+)">','\\1',$string); >> >> Makes snickers = goodbaduglybuttery >> I need >> snickers = good >> marsbar = bad >> peppermintpatty = ugly >> butterfinger = buttery >> >> >> Here is the original code: >> >> $string='<input type="hidden" name="snickers" >> value="good"> >> <input type="hidden" name="marsbar" value="bad"> >> <input type="hidden" name="peppermintpatty" >> value="ugly"> >> <input type="hidden" name="butterfinger" >> value="buttery">'; >> >> $key=ereg_replace('<input type="hidden" name="([^"]+)".* >>','\\1',$string); >> >> $value=ereg_replace('.*value="([^"]+)">','\\1',$string); >> $$key=$value; >> print $snickers; >> >> Thanks again, >> Kevin >> >> BTW - thanks for the tip on monospace fonts. Now everyones sig >>will look >> much better :) >> > >I've found that the only way to do it is as follows: > >$input=$string; >while (ereg("^((.|\n)*)<input >type="hidden" name="(([^"])*)" >value="(([^"])*)">((.|\n)*)$", $input, >$output)) >{ > $input=$output[1].$output[7]; > ${$output[3]}=$output[5]; >}; > >Try that, taking the two stinking newlines as single spaces instead. > >Trust me, I had to build a custom pseudo-XML parser by hand this way >:( ouch. this is what I had in mind, maybe you'll think it's cleaner: <? $lines=explode("\n",$string); for($i=0;$i<sizeof($lines);$i++){ $key=ereg_replace('<input type="hidden" name="([^"]+)".*','\\1',$lines[$i]); $value=ereg_replace('.*value="([^"]*)">','\\1',$lines[$i]); $$key=$value; } ?> - Mark