Re: Regular expressions, filter option1 OR option2

Camilo, What exactly are you trying to achieve? Meaning: if (true) do this; if (false) do that; However, here's a link that I used long back to help me with some RegEx : http://www.gskinner.com/RegExr/ Regards, Shreyas On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Camilo Sperberg <csperberg@unreal4u.com>wrote: > Hello list :) > > Just a short question which I know it should be easy, but I'm no expert yet > in regular expressions. > I've got a nice little XML string, which is something like this but can be > changed: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> > <boolean > xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">false</boolean> > > The boolean value can be true or false, so what I want to do, is filter it. > I've done it this way, but I know it can be improved (just because I love > clean coding and also because I want to master regular expressions xD): > > $result = preg_match('/true/',$curl_response); > if ($result == 0) $result = preg_match('/false/',$curl_response); > > I've also tried something like: > $result = preg_replace('/^(true)|^(false)/','',$curl_response); // if not > true OR not false => replace with empty > > and also '/^true|^false/' which doesn't seem to work. > > Any ideas to filter this kind of string in just one expression? > > Thanks in advance :) > > -- > Mailed by: > UnReAl4U - unreal4u > ICQ #: 54472056 > www1: http://www.chw.net/ > www2: http://unreal4u.com/ > -- Regards, Shreyas Agasthya