Ok, My example was pretty bad.
I was just looking for an easier/more optimal way to look for something
along the lines of
"word1*word2*word3*word4" rather than "word1 word2 word3 word4" as it
currently does.
Actually, I think I have an idea for a way to do what I want without a
regular expression.... I'll have to see how fast it is though before
actually using it.
Thanks anyway.
On 10/2/07, Chris <dmagick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Amos Vryhof wrote:
> > I'm writing a few very simple search scripts.
> >
> > One searches in a few columns of a CSV file, while another just searches
> > through a collection of file names.
> >
> > Currently, I just have it stripping illegal characters from the "needle"
> > and "haystack" then doing a substring search
> >
> > if (substr_count(...)>0) {
> > return formatted results....
> > }
> >
> > What I'm looking to do is enhance my searches with preg_match. What I
> > want to do is take my needle and haystack with the illegal strings
> > stripped out, split it down to words, and search for the string, no
> > matter what is between the words.
> >
> > ex: "the cat and the dog"
> >
> > would also return
> >
> > "the cat ran from the bull and dog"
> >
> > I might learn Regular Expressions at some point in the future, but I
> > just haven't had time to yet... so what I need is just what I would use
> > to build my string pattern for preg_match... I'll figure out the rest
> > and change my scripts appropriately.
>
> You're not going to be able to do that with a regular expression because
> the order of the words isn't even the same.
>
> Why would you need to do this with a regex instead of the way it's
> working right now?
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