Daevid Vincent wrote: > A friend was showing off his regex-fu and the virtues of "named groups" > and how great Python is, knowing that PHP had to be equally as good > (since it uses the same PCRE libraries), we whipped up this little test. > So now us PHP folks can enjoy the same benefit! :-) > > vincentd@dev1:~$ cat ./named_groups_test.php > <?php > //http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php > //http://www.regular-expressions.info/named.html > > preg_match("/(?P<foo>abc)(.*)(?P<bar>xyz)/", > 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz', > $matches); > print_r($matches); > ?> > > vincentd@dev1:~$ php ./named_groups_test.php > Array > ( > [0] => abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz > [foo] => abc > [1] => abc > [2] => defghijklmnopqrstuvw > [bar] => xyz > [3] => xyz > ) > > This needs to be directed to whomever it was about six months ago that was asking about this. They were trying to figure out how to do this, but I believe they were told that it could not be done. Nice example! -- Jim Lucas "Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V by William Shakespeare -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
