[thelist] php pattern matching

[Anthony Baratta]

On 2/13/2011 9:39 AM, Bob Meetin wrote:
> {12345|tom smith|whatever title} oh what a beautiful morning, yadda yadda

RegEx

^{(.*)}(.*)$

When you check the Matches object, you should have

$1 :: 12345|tom smith|whatever title

$2 :: oh what a beautiful morning, yadda yadda

This assumes you don't have any returns/line feeds in your "text" area.

e.g.

<?php
$ptn = "/^{(.*)}(.*)$/";
$str = "{12345|tom smith|whatever title} oh what a beautiful morning, 
yadda yadda ";
preg_match($ptn, $str, $matches);
print_r($matches);
?>

Array
(
     [0] => {12345|tom smith|whatever title} oh what a beautiful 
morning, yadda yadda
     [1] => 12345|tom smith|whatever title
     [2] =>  oh what a beautiful morning, yadda yadda
)

--
Anthony Baratta

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