Hi y'all! I'm very glad this forum exists as I'm not sure where else to turn with this question. I'm parsing the file name of a whole bunch of files in PHP using preg_match_all() and I want to recover 4 bits of information. The naming convention is: _tag_99_Nice_name.extension I need to break this down into 4 parts_tag_ : I ...

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, New question from me. It should have been easy but cannot figure it out. I have a random text with special definitions in it. I need to get information according to the following rules: - the important text is started with a [ followed by a keyword and a semicolon and zero or more whitespaces. The keyword is predefined. - the first word ...

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 all,  i have a question about regex. How can i use php preg_match_all to match all stuff inside custom tags, including any new lines. the parsed text looks like this: [article] lorem ipsum dolor.. lorem ipsum dolor ... lorem ipsum dolor ...  [/article]  expresion used for ignoring only one new line ...

Hello how's everyone doin'? I need help with the regular expression in PHP (using preg_match_all) that would extract the url and the image of these two: <A HREF="movie1.mpg"><img name="movie1" src="images/tn_01.jpg" width="320" height="240" border="0" alt="Play ...

Hello how's everyone doin'? I need help with the regular expression in PHP (using preg_match_all) that could extract the url and the image of these two: <A HREF="movie1.mpg"><img name="movie1" src="images/tn_01.jpg" width="320" height="240" border="0" alt="Play ...

It's OK, I think I've found the answer to my own question. The # signs bracket the actual regular expression, and the e and the s are modifiers - e is equivalent to PREG_REPLACE_EVAL and  s is equivalent to PCRE_DOTALL. Maybe these are things which are so familiar to the experienced players that they almost go without saying, but ...

I have a problem which seems similar to the one documented here, so I hope somebody reading this can help me too. I have a page of PHP code which works some of the time, but not always, so I'm trying to discover the bugs in it. It includes the line  preg_match_all('#<!-- start content -->(.*?)<!-- end content -->#es', ...