Re: Reg-ex help

Craige Leeder schreef: > 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"; hth: <?php $fSegRegEx = "#(\{:seg )\'([a-z0-9\-\_]{3,})\'((?: cache)?:\})#i"; $str = <<<DATA <html> <body> <h1>{:seg 'title':}</h1> <h1>{:seg 'title' cache:}</h1> </body> </html> DATA; preg_match_all($fSegRegEx, $str, $faSegMatches, PREG_SET_ORDER); print_r($faSegMatches); ?> OUTPUTS: Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => {:seg 'title':} [1] => {:seg [2] => title [3] => :} ) [1] => Array ( [0] => {:seg 'title' cache:} [1] => {:seg [2] => title [3] => cache:} ) ) > > Which when run against my test data, seems to match: > > "{:seg 'segname' cache:}" > " cache" > > > > > > For arguments sake, I'll provide the whole code snippet... > > preg_match($fSegRegEx, $this->msOpCont, $faSegMatches); > > /* faSegMatches == > > * array > > * 0 => '{:seg 'users_online' cache:}'// > > * 1 => ' cache'// > > */ > > while ( $fMatch = current($faSegMatches) ) { > > /* > * Expected: > > * $fMatch[0] = "{:seg " > > * $fMatch[1] = Segment Name > > * > * $fMatch[2] = " cache:}" > > * or > > * $fMatch[2] = " :}" > > */ > > $faMatch = explode("'", $fMatch); > > //... > > //... > > next($faSegMatches); > > }// End While > > > Thanks guys. This has been bugging me for a couple days. > - Craige > >