Re: Reg-ex help

Craige Leeder wrote:

Hey guys, I'm trying to write a regular expression to match a tag for my frameworks template engine. I seem to be having some trouble. The expression should match: {:seg 'segname':} {:seg 'segname' cache:} What I have is... $fSegRegEx = "#\{:seg \'[a-z0-9\-\_]{3,}\'( cache)?:\}#i"; Which when run against my test data, seems to match: "{:seg 'segname' cache:}" " cache" Thanks guys. This has been bugging me for a couple days. - Craige

I used some of your code, but try this variant on for size. <plaintext> <?php error_reporting(E_ALL); ini_set('display_errors', 1); $dummyData = <<<DATA <html> <body> <h1>{:seg 'title':}</h1> <h1>{:seg 'title' cache:}</h1> </body> </html> DATA; # For arguments sake, I'll provide the whole code snippet... $fSegRegEx = "|\{:(seg) \'([a-z0-9\-\_]{3,})\'\s?(cache)?:\}|i"; preg_match_all($fSegRegEx, $dummyData, $faSegMatches, PREG_SET_ORDER); print_r($faSegMatches); ?> Not sure what your input is going to be (HTML, XML, etc...) so I used HTML Anyways, output from the above code is this: <plaintext> Array (

    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => {:seg 'title':}
            [1] => seg
            [2] => title
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [0] => {:seg 'title' cache:}
            [1] => seg
            [2] => title
            [3] => cache
        )

) Hope this starts you down the right path. -- Jim Lucas "Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V by William Shakespeare