Re: [Nolug] test

yep... I'm looking this to be case insensitive.
And have wildcards at the end and at the beginning. and this one "%"
spot in between.

Therefore in my example below "ABC" and "A706" are "known" values,
though case insensitive.
Also the length of the "known" values vary.

Flow:
I have these values such as this "ABC%A706", in a database (value 1).
Then I have another set of values like this "model-abc-a706/ software
version 0.3 /sumptin else" detected by PHP script (value 2).

Most likely I would normalize both values to lowercase first.

With value 1, I have some other properties in the database as well, one
of them is an ID.

I'm trying to run a foreach loop which attempts to find value 1 from
value 2.

If the match is found, then I break the loop, and read the associated ID.

If these 2 values would be reversed, the process would be very simple,
and no need for additional woodoo, but unfortunately this is not the case.

Petri

Chris Jones wrote:
> Generally, regex's are more picky than that. A isn't going to match
> a, plus all those characters before and after the regex have to be
> matched wtih a wildcard. It really depends on what you're trying to
> do that determines the right approach.
>
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Petri Laihonen<pietu@weblizards.net> wrote:
>
>> Tried to send again, but for some reason this post does not appear in the
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>> Therefore, since my reply to "test" appeared, perhaps this one does too.
>>
>>
>> Orig Subject: Regex help needed
>>
>> Do we have any regex geniuses on the wire?
>>
>> I've heard regular expressions are powerful thing....... I agree ....they
>> are very powerful driving you nuts trying to figure them out.....
>>
>> I'm trying to match 2 strings together.... (Will use in a PHP environment)
>> String 1: "ABC%A706" (Where % is a wildcard, thus should match to any
>> character)
>> String 2: "model-abc-a706/ software version 0.3 /sumptin else"
>> String 3: "model-abc-h706/ software version 0.3 /sumptin else"
>>
>>
>> With the above strings, 1 and 2 would be match, but 1 and 3 are not.
>>
>> In other words, anything before, on the % sign, and after the string 1
>> is OK. As long as portions "abc" and "a706" are found from the longer
>> string with only one character, ....any character in between them.
>>
>> Any hints?
>>
>> Petri
>>
>>
>>
>> Joey Kelly wrote:
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