On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 08:25:57AM -0500, Mike Smith wrote: > I'm trying to save myself some time by extracting certain variables > from a string: > > 102-90 E 42 X 42 X 70 3/8 > > I've been testing with: http://www.quanetic.com/regex.php > and have been somewhat successful. Using this pattern: > /[0-9]{2,}( X| x|x )/ The biggest problem with trying to match a string with regex is you have to know the definition of what the string can be, for example can the data be: 102-90 E 42 X 42 X 70 3/8 102-90 E 42 X 42 X 70 3/8 102-90 E 42X42X70 3/8 102-90 E 42\tX\t 42 \t X\n 70\r\n 3/8 > > I have: > 102-90 E [!MATCH!] [!MATCH!] 70 3/8 If you want to just match those two numbers then: /\s+(\d{1,2})\s+(X|x)\s+(\d{1,2})\s+(X|x)\s+/ > > > Ideally what I want to do is update the db table that holds these records. > ID: 1 > Unit: 102-90 E 42 X 42 X 70 3/8 > Panel: 42 > Width: 42 > Height: 70 3/8 If this is the case, where does the 102-90 E come from? This sounds more like a data normalization issue than anything. Curt. -- cat .signature: No such file or directory -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
