REGEXP questions....

[Anon]

Hoping some regexp gurus might be lurking on the board today... I am parsing in a textfile that contains 300 emails with form data inside. I have 7 strings to match and once a match is found I need to grab all subsequent characters until the line break and save them to an array.

So I start with this:

$filename="/home/address/text.txt";
$fd=fopen($filename,"r");
$body=fread($fd,filesize($filename));
$lines=split("\n",$body);
for ($i=0;$i<count($lines);$i++){

$DoSomethingWith = $lines[$i];
}

fclose($fd)

But how do I create a regexp statement to grab all characters following "Name......................:" until the linebreak?

I have read the manual and online tutorials but REGEXP is a bit tricky and an example might let me keep exploring my solution...

Thanks for any help offered.

[Anon]

Something like this?

preg_match("/(Name {4}:.*\n)/", $some_string, $matches);

Then $matches[1] will contain the string you want, "Name : something\n"

HTH,

Diego

[Anon]

Diego, thanks for that... I think it is close... what if I just wanted "First Last" instead of "Name: First Last" ? I don't need the category value, just the actual data.

Thanks!

Chris

[Anon]

Put the parenthesis around what you want to get:

preg_match("/Name {4}🙁.*)\n/", $some_string, $matches);

HTH,

Diego