Re: REGEX

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 12:38 PM, georg chambert <georg.chambert@telia.com> wrote: > Im not so into regex, but what does the first square brac do ? > /georg > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Piggott" < > ron.piggott@actsministries.org> > To: "PHP General" <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Friday, September 11, 2015 4:40 PM > Subject: [PHP] REGEX > > > > >> Hi Everyone. >> >> I've found this REGEX pattern at >> >> >> https://coderwall.com/p/snn1ag/regex-to-parse-your-default-nginx-access-logs >> >> (?P<ipaddress>\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}) - - >> \[(?P<dateandtime>\d{2}\/[a-z]{3}\/\d{4}:\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2} >> (\+|\-)\d{4})\] ((\"(GET|POST) )(?P<url>.+)(http\/1\.1")) >> (?P<statuscode>\d{3}) (?P<bytessent>\d+) >> (["](?P<refferer>(\-)|(.+))["]) >> (["](?P<useragent>.+)["]) >> >> I am missing why it isn't parsing my access log file: >> >> 108.170.163.140 - - [11/Sep/2015:09:59:54 -0400] "GET >> /prayers-for-today/20 HTTP/1.0" 200 14982 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; >> Android 5.0.1; GT-I9505 Build/LRX22C) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like >> Gecko) Chrome/44.0.2403.133 Mobile Safari/537.36" "-" >> >> Would someone with a fresh set of eyes have a look for me please? >> >> This is the syntax where I use it: >> >> if (preg_match($pattern, $line, $matches)) { >> >> Thank you. >> >> Ron >> >> >> >> > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > I never figured out why people don't use the existing separator from Apache to process logs, makes it much more easier. You can try to look @ similar regex codes and see what you are doing differently: http://dom.hastin.gs/blog/coding/php-log-process-apache-log-files-with-php/49 http://snipplr.com/view/40524/phplog--process-log-files-with-php/