Re: [Nolug] test

Are you sure that % is a regex wildcard?

On 2009-06-10 21:56, Petri Laihonen wrote:
> 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
>>> nolug list.
>>> 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?
>>>

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