I found a regex pattern for PHP that does the exact OPPOSITE of what I'm needing, and I'm wondering how I can reverse it? Let's say I have the following text: Item_154 ($12) This pattern /\((.*?)\)/ gets what's inside the parenthesis, but I need to get "Item_154" and cut out what's in parenthesis and the space before the parenthesis. ...
I want to have A-Z, 0-9 and whitespace ignored in regular expression, currently I have this, it works but whitespaces are ignored too but I need them. preg_match_all("/[^\w]/",$string,$matches); ...
So here is what I'm doing exactly: I have a form with a caption on the right of it, I want to write in the form only A-Z,0-9 and whitespaces, and for the caption I want to do the opposite, so if the user write's something wrong I can show what's the problem for example: "Invalid Charachter" But I'm stuck with + and # I want to ignore ...
What does this regular expression mean? preg_match("/^obj(\d+)\-{0,1}(|mi\d{0,1}|critical|questionText|answerText\-{0,1}\d+)$/", $k, $a) the preg_match is a php function that should translate it ...
Hello SO: I am a bit rusty at PHP, so bear with me. I am making a simple email form that validates a few key pieces of data. One of these fields is the submitter's zip code. To validate this, I figured a regex would be simple since I am pretty confident the validation can be done in one line. Behold: preg_match("^([0-9]{5}|[0-9]{5}\-[0...
Hi this is my keyword BC1024 , AB124 , CBC2548 , using preg match to separate the number and character , For that i tried this preg match expression , but its not working greatly , preg_match_all('/(?P\w+): (?P\d+)/', $flight_code_no, $matches,PREG_PATTERN_ORDER); i want output as Array ( [0] => BC1024: 2008 [name] =>...
I am trying to use regular expressions to make my inventory upload script a little better. I sell clothing and accessories. In my inventory file I have a field called ProductDepartment which is a combination of gender/item type. I have a MySQL table for gender with the following values: Mens = 1 Womens = 2 Unisex = 3 Departments in...
preg_match_all('|(.*?)|', $read, $foo, PREG_SET_ORDER); print_r($foo); output as just Array ( ) Where i made mistake See guys , Actually i want to grab the exact details from this URL i want to pick this details from this URL 08:35 9W5048 TORONTO EXPECTED 1358 Terminal three So i tried this snippet , but...
Can't seem to figure this one out. Just trying to preg match for a specific variable name in a link URL: <a href="http://something.com?variable=name">GenericLink</a> How do I get the variable=name out of this? Thanks! ...
I am using a regular expression to see if there is a single non-latin character within a string. $latin_check = '/[\x{0030}-\x{007f}]/u'; //This is looking for only latin characters if(preg_match($latin_check, $_POST['full_name'])) { $error = true; } This should be checking to see if there is at least one character pres...
I'm adding an if statement to my database abstraction layer to pick out any attempted queries to a handful of database tables. Basically, if my application attempts to create, read or destroy data from a database table called either members or members_profiles I want to invoke my if statement. if ( preg_match('/INSERT INTO [members...
how can I use preg_match to extract secret_password from this string? s:6:"secret_password" ...
Hi all, i'm newer related to Regexp on PHP... I need to create an Regexp to filter Portuguese Mobile Phones, can anybody help me and explain how i do it? (To i understand it) Rules: The integer/string must have 9chars; The first char must be a '9'; The second one can be '1,2,3,6' (Chars are separeted by commas); The other chars must b...
If I have a URL that is http://www.example.com/sites/dir/index.html, I would want to extract the word "sites". I know I have to use regular expressions but for some reason my knowledge of them is not working on PHP. I am trying to use : $URL = $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]; preg_match("%^/(.*)/%", $URL, $matches); But I must be doing som...
Hey guys, I am trying to match "address" in this page - http://www.bbb.org/norfolk/business-reviews/tax-return-preparation/liberty-tax-service-in-virginia-beach-va-48000604 The source of address part has this HTML <tr> <td align="right" class="generalinfo_left">Address:</td> <td class="generalinfo_right">1 S Main St Ste 1430<b...
example: <?php $string = "This is some text written on 2010-07-18."; preg_match('|(?<date>\d\d\d\d-\d\d-\d\d)|i',$string,$arr_result); print_r($arr_result); ?> returns: Array ( [0] => 2010-07-18 [date] => 2010-07-18 [1] => 2010-07-18 ) but I want it to be: Array ( [date] => 2010-07-18 ) in php's pdo object there ...
I am looking for help in creating a Regular Expression that validates a URL of very long length (eg. a very long Google Maps address). I am new to regular expressions and I am using it in PHP with preg_match(). I have used the expression: preg_match('/^(http|https|ftp):\/\/([A-Z0-9][A-Z0-9_-]*(?:\.[A-Z0-9][A-Z0-9_-]*)+):?(\d+)?\/?/...
Hi guyz, I need to get all contents of div class = "parent" using preg_match, <div class = "parent"> <div id = "child1"> </div> <div id = "child2"> </div> </div> Anyone? ...
I'm trying to match all the URLs that end in .html and if they have ? after it's OK but if it's odd then not so preg_match("/article-(.+?).html/i", getenv('REQUEST_URI')) <-- good preg_match("/article-(.+?).html*?*/i", getenv('REQUEST_URI')) <-- good basically i want to match it if it end in .html or ends in .html? and if it has a ? ...
I think this should be elementary, but I still cant't get my head around it. Let's say there's fair amount of HTML documents and I need to catch every image urls out of them. The rest of the content changes, but the base of the url is always the same for example http://images.examplesite.com/images/, so I wan't to extract every string t...