regular expression

Anon

I have the following string:

begin{data}

filespace{aa}

begin{title}
option
end{title}

begin{pseudo}

How can I use ereg to get the string contained within {} after filespace ie:
filespace{NEEDTHIS}

The closest regular expression I had got everything from { to the last } ie:
aa}

begin{title}
option
end{title}

begin{pseudo}

Any suggestions?

znouza

preg_match_all("/filespace{([^{}]*)}/i",$text,$array);}

result will be in $array[1];

Anon

preg_match_all("/filespace{(.*?)}/i",$text,$array);

which is probably one character away from what you had.

Anon

Thanks for the quick answers but I only get Array as a result when printing $array[1]

Perhaps if you could have a look at what I am doing you may be able to point out what I am doing wrong and this thing does not work. It must be something trivial that I can not see 🙁

$text="begin{data} filespace{aa} begin{title} option end{title} begin{pseudo} species(ae_c11.11) species(new_c__4.4) end{pseudo} derivs{ alll -- - 12 1 21 } begin[0]{positions} 1 2 3 4 5 end{positions} end{data}";
echo $text;
preg_match_all("/filespace{(.?)}/i",$text,$array);

print" Result: $array[1]";
preg_match_all("/filespace{([^}])}/i",$text,$array);
print" Result: $array[1]";
exit;

begin{data} filespace{aa} begin{title} option end{title} begin{pseudo} species(ae_c11.11) species(new_c__4.4) end{pseudo} derivs{ alll -- - 12 1 21 } begin[0]{positions} 1 2 3 4 5 end{positions} end{data}

Result: Array

Thank you in advance!

znouza

hmm.. If I know regexp, your expression will 'catch' all the chars until the LAST parenthesis "}" so it will contain ALL chars including {}

znouza

$array[1] IS an array. and will always be an array. use print_r($array[1]) or
<?
foreach($array[1] as $value) echo "$value ";
?>

znouza

oops😉 take it back