Re: Re: regex

On Aug 13, 2008, at 3:31 PM, Shawn McKenzie wrote:

Philip Thompson wrote:

Figured it out. Just needed to stretch my brain a lil. On Aug 13, 2008, at 3:07 PM, Philip Thompson wrote:

<?php function blegh ($subject) { // I know this pattern doesn't exactly work $pattern = '/(.*).php\?action=([^&].*)/';

$pattern = '/(.*).php\?action=([^&]+)+/';

preg_match ($pattern, $subject, $matches); return $matches; } blegh ('somePage.php?action=doSomething&id='); ?> Ok, the important parts that I need to obtain from this are: somePage doSomething How can you modify the pattern above to grab the action appropriately? Sorry, my regex is a lil rusty! Thanks in advance, ~Phil

Cheers, ~Philip

That regex might not always work for you, (&amp;) comes to mind. You might want to look at parse_str() which you can use after parse_url() if needed. -Shawn

That's a good thought. However, I am specifically sending a URL that has not yet been urlencoded, so I know that &amp; won't be occurring. Thanks, ~Philip