Thanks for the options David.
I think I'll go for the last option as I'm determined to get to grips
with REGEX, and your first choice of REGEX won't work for me as the
'RV-6' bit can be too variable with what it contains, whereas the \(EX\)
bit IS more constant...it's only the EX bit that changes.
I knew I had to to escape some characters but got confused as to how
many times to do each one.
I have tried using your example as follows:
$postScriptData =preg_replace("/\\\(.*?\)\\/","",$postScriptData);
and get the following error:
Warning: No ending delimiter '/' found in...
Any suggestions?
Cheers
Alexis
David Tulloh wrote:
I assume that the text inside can change around a fair bit. If the
string is of a fixed with or simple format you can just use substr() and
friends, it's simpler and faster.
That said, there is really two approaches that I can see with this string.
You can match on the spaces to extract the 'RV-6', something like
'/\s\S+\s/' should do the trick, that pulls out some non-whitespace
characters from between two whitespace characters, including the
whitespace characters. Then just add the () on again afterwards.
The other approach would be to use preg_replace to get rid of the \(EX\)
portion by replacing it with an empty string. Personally I would
probably use the first technique as I generally don't like using replace
functions in this way. A pattern which should match is '/\\\(.*?\)\\/',
the mess of \ is because \ ( and ) all need to be escaped with a \.
David
phplists wrote:
Hi,
I'm still trying to get to grips with REGEX and have hit a hurdle with
the following:
I have this bit of text:
(\(EX\) RV-6 )
I want to remove the '\(EX\)' part of it
so leaving just: ( RV-6 )
Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
Thanks
Alexis
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