Re: [Nolug] test

why not literally use the '-' in between?
/^(.+)[abc|ABC]-[a|A]706(.*)$/
/^(.+)[abc|ABC]\-[a|A]706(.*)$/

(I'm not sure the - may have to be escaped by a \slash, try it both ways)
this also says lower or uppercase "abc" and lower or uppercase 'a'
Guy
On Wednesday, June 10, 2009 10:27 PM, Petri Laihonen wrote:
>
>Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:27:56 -0500
>From: Petri Laihonen
>To: nolug@nolug.org
>cc:
>Subject: 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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