Re: Regex help!
| From: | CC Zona | Date: | Fri, 05 Jan 2001 01:09:48 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Regex help! | ||
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In article <003801c076b1$7805f840$1e01a8c0@mu.com.au>, murray@mu.com.au
("Murray Shields") wrote:
> Basically, I have a whopping great log file that I would like to parse. Each
> line of the log file consists of one of 70 or so sentences. EVERY sentence
> takes one of the following three forms:
>
> [keyword1]phrase1[keyword2]phrase2
> [keyword1]phrase1[keyword2]
> [keyword1]phrase1
>
> Where the phrases are always consistent, but the keywors are different on
> each line. What I want to know is what regex's do I need to use in order to
> extract the keywords from each line?
>
> At this stage I am planning to store all of the phrases in a database, and
> then try each one in turn until I find a match. But is there a better way?
Perhaps str_replace() phrase2 for phrase1, then explode() each line using
phrase1 as the separator?
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CC