Re: Convert literature string via Regular Expressions

[Bastiaan Wakkie <bastiaaw@xxxxxx>]

Hey,

I Found it out at the end! Thanks anyway.

Here the code to find out for someone that is interested:
<?php
	$filename="Literature.txt";
	$handle = fopen ($filename, "r");
	while (!feof ($handle)) {
		$buffer = fgets($handle, 1024);
		echo ("<hr><p>".$buffer."<>");
		//.....................Author.................Year.................Title DE or EN.............EN Title..............................Source.....issue...........pages......Press
		$match=preg_match ("/^([\wÜÖäüßéñóíá,.-\s]*)\(([\d]{4})\)*:\s([\)\(ÜÖäüßéñóíá,.:&?!-\w\s]*)\[([\)\(ÜÖäüßéñóíá,.:&?!-é\w\s]*)\]\s-\s([\s\w]*)\s([\(\/\)\d]*),\s([\d-]*).\s([\w]*)/", $buffer, $regs);
		if ($match){
			echo ("<p>Matched till now in:  $line <br>------------------------> <i>".$regs[0]."</i>");
			echo ("<table border=\"2\"><tr><td>Author:</td><td><i>".$regs[1]."</i></td></tr>");
			echo ("<tr><td>Year:</td><td><i>".$regs[2]."</i></td></tr>");
			echo ("<tr><td>Title EN or DE:</td><td><i>".$regs[3]."</i></td></tr>");
			echo ("<tr><td>Title EN:</td><td><i>".$regs[4]."</i></td></tr>");
			echo ("<tr><td>Source:</td><td><i>".$regs[5]."</i></td></tr>");
			echo ("<tr><td>Issue:</td><td><i>".$regs[6]."</i></td></tr>");
			echo ("<tr><td>Pages:</td><td><i>".$regs[7]."</i></td></tr>");
			echo ("<tr><td>Press City:</td><td><i>".$regs[8]."</i></td></tr></table>");
		}
		else{
			echo "<div style=\"color:red\">String did not match!</div></p>";
		}
	}
	fclose ($handle);
?>


Cool he!

 I'm starting to like regular expressions. So now I can happily import 1000 new rows without any problem. 

bye,
Bastiaan


On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 16:50, Bastiaan Wakkie wrote:

Hi all,

I'm having difficulties getting the following literature strings ripped to prepare it to be inserted into the database.

Here 2 example strings:

Hauser, M., Geller-Grimm, F. (1995): Bestimmungsschlüssel für die Weibchen der deutschen Sphegina-Arten (Diptera, Syrphidae). [Key to distinguish the females of the Sphegina species known from Germany (Diptera, Syrphidae).] - Entomology 2(1/2), 3-19. London.
Mazánek, L., Láska, P., Bicik, V. (1999): Two new Palaearctic species of Eupeodes similar to E. bucculatus (Diptera, Syrphidae) [] - Volucella 4, 1-9. Stuttgart.

Pattern is like this:
Author(s) (year): Title in German or English. [If filled than former title was a German one and this one is the English translation.] - Source issue, pages. City.

Author:
Year:
Title EN or DE:
Title EN:
Source:
Issue:
Pages:
Press City:

I tried something like this:

	preg_match ("/^[..something..]+/", $string, $regs);

	echo ("Author: ".$regs[1]."<br />");
	echo ("Year: ".$regs[2]."<br />");
	echo ("Title EN or DE: ".$regs[3]."<br />");
	echo ("Title EN: ".$regs[4]."<br />");
	echo ("Source: ".$regs[5]."<br />");
	echo ("Issue: ".$regs[6]."<br />");
	echo ("Pages: ".$regs[7]."<br />");
	echo ("Press City: ".$regs[8]."<br />");

But I'm having problems with the spaces and the parentheses that I somehow can't use in the matching...
Any idea how to split the string in the appropriate parts?

Many thanks,
                 Bastiaan

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Bastiaan Wakkie <bastiaaw@xxxxxx>
www.syrphidae.com

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Bastiaan Wakkie <bastiaaw@xxxxxx>
www.syrphidae.com