Re: [Nolug] test

OK... Trying to learn something here.... I've read today from here and
there, a dot is the "universal" match-all, though should be used cautiously.
Some of my attempts to form the regex expression involved square
brackets []... apparently those are not needed.

Now if I want to match with 2 parts of the original string.....

How does this look like?
/^(.+)abc(.)a706(.+)$/

Petri

Louis.Ross@selu.edu wrote:
> try
> /^(.+)a706(.+)$/
> starts with one or more of any character followed by literally 'a706'
> or
>
>
> preg_match('/^(.+)a706\/(.+)\/(.+)$/',"$test_string");
>
> starts with one or more of any character followed by literally 'a706' and then /, more chars, /,more chars at the end of the string
>
>
> returns boolean true if $test_string contains 'a706' in the specified position
> also
> $1 == 'model-abc-';
> $2 == 'software version 0.3';
> $3 == 'sumptin else';
> will return true
>
> That's all I got, there's more ways to skin that cat for sure.
>
> Guy Ross
>
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:16 PM, Chris Jones wrote:
>
>> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:16:39 -0500
>> From: Chris Jones
>> To: nolug@nolug.org
>> cc:
>> Subject: Re: [Nolug] test
>>
>> 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: "
>>>
> 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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