Re: preg_match help please

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On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 09:15:03 +0100, Steve Turnbull wrote:

> On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:27:49 +1200, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote:
> 
>> Steve Turnbull wrote:
>>> I am trying to find a regular expression to match a variable, what I think
>>> should work (but doesn't) is;
>>> 
>>> preg_match ('^/[\w],[\w],/', $variable)
>>> 
>>> The $variable MUST contain an alpha-numeric string, followed by a comma,
>>> followed by another alpha-numeric string, followed by another comma
>>> followed by (but doesn't have to!!) another alpha-numeric string followed
>>> by nothing.
>>> 
>>> I realise my regex above doesn't allow for the last 'followed by nothing',
>>> but to me it looks like it should match the first part of the string up to
>>> the last comma?
>> 
>> Something like
>> 
>> '/^\w+,\w+,\w*$/'
>> 
>> maybe? (untested)
>> 
>> http://php.net/reference.pcre.pattern.syntax
> 
> Thats got me a lot further - thanks
> 
> I reduced it slightly to '/^\w+,\w+,' because at the end there is the
> possibility of an alpha-numeric character(s) OR nothing at all with the
> exception of a possible line break (note possible)
> 
> It's the 'possibly nothing at all' which I am slightly stuck on
> 
> Thanks
> Steve


One more thing (I have tried researching myself and reading the o'rielly
book, but I need fairly swift solutions)...

How would I check for this scenario;

Two commas, which MAY have, but don't always have a value between, but
the commas must ALWAYS be there - i.e.

var1,var2,var3
var1,var2,
var1,,

Cheers
Steve

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