Re: Regular Expression Challenge

No luck on any of those suggestions people but thanks anyway :( I had a feeling it was a bit too complex for a regexp. > Oh, I didnt read the bit at the bottom about the times appearing any > number of times. Off the top of my head I think this should work... > > PREG: > > "/'([a-z]+)-([a-z]+)\s(?:([0-9]+(?::[0-9]+|))(?:,\s)?)*'/" > > -- > Matt > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Cameron Just" <c.just@phoenixdigital.com> > To: <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 6:15 AM > Subject: [PHP] Regular Expression Challenge > > >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to pull out the following information via a regular > expression. >> >> The string I am searching on is 'wed-thurs 9:35, 14:56, 18:35' >> >> and I want it to retreive >> wed >> thurs >> 9:35 >> 14:56 >> 18:35 >> >> The regular expression I am using is >> ([a-z]+)-([a-z]+) +([0-9]{1,2}:?[0-9]{0,2})[, ]* >> >> It seems to be grabbing the >> wed >> thurs >> 9:35 >> but I can't seem to retrieve the rest of the times. >> >> Anyone have any ideas? >> >> BTW >> There can be any number of 'times' in the string and also the 'times' >> can be with or without the colon and the minutes, hence the >> '}:?[0-9]{0,2}' part of the regexp. >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php