On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Aziz Saleh <azizsaleh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 6:59 PM, Ian Evans <dheianevans@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 6:52 PM, Aziz Saleh <azizsaleh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> > On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 6:30 PM, Ian Evans <dheianevans@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
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>> >> I've been looking at the regex functions. Either it's a lack of
>> caffeine
>> >> or
>> >> it's right in front of my nose, but how do I put part of a regex find
>> into
>> >> a variable? Plus I suck at regex.
>> >>
>> >> e.g.
>> >>
>> >> I'm interested in capturing the names of people who are found in text
>> >> surrounded by the following format:
>> >>
>> >> "John Doe":/cr/johndoe/ or "Jane Smith":/cr/janesmith/
>> >>
>> >> I'd want to place John Doe or Jane Smith into the variable. The search
>> >> will
>> >> always be for "name":/cr/nameurl/
>> >>
>> >> What regex and php function would I use? Thanks for any pointers. One
>> of
>> >> these days I'll master regex.
>> >>
>> >
>> > If the names will always contain double quotes, it should be as easy as:
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>> > $var = ' "John Doe":/cr/johndoe/ or "Jane Smith":/cr/janesmith/';
>> > preg_match_all('/".*"/U', $var, $res);
>> > print_r($res);
>> >
>> > U to make it ungreedy (its greedy by default). If there are other quotes
>> > in the text, you can add the colon to the expression as well.
>> >
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>> Thanks. There might be other quotes in the article, so if I include the
>> colon, it'd be before the /U?
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> Yeah, you might also want to do a select to avoid getting the actual
> quotes:
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> preg_match_all('/"(.*)":/U', $var, $res);
> print_r($res[1]);
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Thanks so much, that worked like a charm. Just realized that it will grab
all links in the article. (These are PHPTextile formatted links). So if I
want to narrow it down to just the links with /cr/ is this the correct
escaped forma:
preg_match_all('/"(.*)":\/cr\//U', $var, $res);
