On Friday 21 January 2005 03:21, Tim Boring wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 13:41, Jason Wong wrote:
> > On Friday 21 January 2005 01:52, Tim Boring wrote:
> >
> > Well the biggest problem in your code right now is your incomprehensible
> > (to me anyway) use of the switch construct. For a start I've no idea why
> > you're using ...
> >
> > > switch ($line)
> >
> > ... when your tests do not involve $line
> >
> > > case ($total_counter <= 5):
>
> I see your point, but the other tests do involve $line. This one that
> you reference I'm using for a "special need"--basically so I leave in
> the initial column headings from the report, because they would match
> several of the tests that would discard those lines.
But as you're using switch ($line) then your tests would have to evaluate to
$line for the case to be true. AFAICS your preg_match() expressions will not
return $line. That's why if your test cases involve wildly different things
you should use:
> > I suspect what you want to be doing is something like this:
> >
> > switch (TRUE) {
> > case ANY_EXPRESSION_THAT_EVALUATES_TO_TRUE:
> > ...
> > }
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm not sure that does what I'm looking
> for. I really think the problem is with my regex, not necessarily with
> the way I've constructed my switch statement.
>
> I say this because I have since changed the first word in each line from
> something like "AKRN" to a numeric value, and everything works just as I
> would expect it to.
That's probably because you're relying on PHP's auto type conversion when it
is evaluating your case expressions.
> So it seems as if the "^" might be negating the \W+
> part of the regex. Although that shouldn't be happening because "^"
> only acts as a negation when it's used inside brackets, at least
> according the documentation.
In any case you're (apparently (according to the subject)) trying to solve a
regex problem, but you're muddying the issue by using (IMO) an incorrect
switch construct. Get each of your preg_match() working properly on their own
*then* stick them into the switch.
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