note 31067 added to function.ereg

I notice there was no iterative example listed here. If you need to search for patterns on a string more than once (which I have), you need to be sure to calculate the correct string to search. Example. $s = "abababa"; while(ereg("b",$s,$temp)) { $t = $temp[0]; $start = strlen($t) + strpos($s,$t); $length = strlen($s); $s = substr($s,$start,$length-$start); print $t."\n"; } This will print out three b's. If you do not want to change the variable that you are searching just make a local copy before the loop. It would be nice if there were functions that would tell you where a pattern was found instead of using strpos for a found pattern. Oh well it all works out in the end. And it does work for big complicated regular expressions and search strings, I am parsing cvs version files (rcs format) and their regular expressions look like (from my code) $this->w = "(\t|\n|\v|\r| )*"; // \ b and \ f are messing it up look like literals? $this->num = "([0-9]|\.)+"; $this->id = '(([0-9]|\.)+)*[^?,.:;@]([^?,.:;@]|([0-9]|\.)+)*'; $this->sym = '([0-9])*[^$,.:;@]([^$,.:;@]|([0-9]))*'; $this->idchar = '[^$,.:;@]'; $this->special = '$,.:;@'; $this->string = '@([^@]|[@]{2})*@'; $this->delta_num = "$this->w$this->num$this->w"; $this->delta_date = "date$this->w$this->num;$this->w"; $this->delta_author = "author$this->w$this->id;$this->w"; $this->delta_state = "state$this->w($this->id)?;$this->w"; $this->delta_branches = "branches$this->w($this->num|$this->w)*;$this->w"; $this->delta_next = "next$this->w($this->num)?;$this->w"; $this->delta = "($this->delta_num$this->delta_date$this->delta_author$this-> delta_state$this->delta_branches$this->delta_next)*"; $this->single_delta = "($this->delta_num$this->delta_date$this->delta_author $this->delta_state$this->delta_branches$this->delta_next)"; In my example you give an RCS file (cvs version file like file,v) and this function is called function getDelta() { $temp = array(); $two_array = array(); $f = $this->filecontent; while(ereg($this->single_delta,$f,$temp)) { $two = $temp[0]; $start = strlen($two) + strpos($f,$two); $length = strlen($f); $f = substr($f,$start,$length-$start); $two = trim($two); $two_array[] = $two; } } filecontent is the file content from file,v, and $this->single_delta is from above. So you can imagine it works pretty nicely even with complex stuff. -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ereg.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+31067 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+31067 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+31067