Im using the following piece of php code to validate the correct format of a web address. www.mysite.com should return true www.mysite.coy should return false and trigger the...  die (comment) unfortunately both aaddresses return true.  I thought that as coy wasnt in my list of tld's that it would return true. Does ...

I have this kind of strings:  {test1|test2|test3} This is easy to match with something like:  ~{(.*?)}~  But I would like to be able to match strings like: {test1|test2|test3{subtest1|subtest2}} or {test1|test2|test3{subtest1|subtest2{subsubtest1|subsubtest2|subsubtest3}}} I can't figure out how I could match that in the ...

Hi, We have a control system, which sends automated messages in the following syntax:     ##TO admin, user1, user2 message1 ##TO user2, user4 message2 ##TO user5 message3   I think the syntax is obvious. From this message I need to create as many messages as many different users are after the ##TO fields. In this case ...

Hi all! I'm starting to get my head around regular expressions for work, but there are still bits and pieces my mind just draws a blank with.. At the moment I'm trying to validate a text string to check if it has 5 specific values, and extract them, using PHP. Here are a few examples of valid labels [cake] cupcake 50kg $100 ...

Hi folks,  I am trying to extract search terms from a string to process (in PHP). It is a free-text input box where the user can enter terms to search a database table, using AND'd, OR'd, and NOT'd expressions. Sample strings: AND this,that NOT you,me  OR red,biue NOT white   In the first example, I would like to ...

I am working on making a bbcode system with php using preg_replace(), and I am making it so that other tags will not work inside of a code block. This is the code I am currently using, it almost works: /(?!\[code\])(.*)(\[b\])(.+)(\[\/b\])(.*)(?<!\[\/code\])/Usi  what I want it to do is if [*code] and [*/code] are around the text inside, ...

Hi,  I'm using PHP to parse an incoming email. I wish to be able to match then store URL's contained in the email message. I just need to figure out the RegEx to match URL's.  I've been currently building and testing ...

I have the following regex statement I'm trying to run in PHP.  (?<!(end\s?zone|lower|upper)\s?)(view)  Testing against the following string: (matches in bold) "The endzone view goes hi upper view and he goes view and then goes view and view and view!!!" Notice "upper view" and "endzone view" are ...

Hello all, I'd like to check on a php page that a text string complies with the following rule : Contain numbers,  in ascending order, with only   ,    or    -     as separators The numbers represent requested items (like pages to print), my purpose is then to count the ...

Hi, I'm trying to write a regular expression that converts a 'pretty URI' into a standard one in the Apache .htaccess file. I'm doing it in PHP (preg_match) first, since both seem to work similarly. An example: page/c-cssstyle/t-template/p-pagenumber/ needs to be converted into ...