PHP eq for read from stdin in perl

Anon

I am trying for an alternative in php to the following perl script

while(<>){
print $1 ,"\n", if /([.*])/;
}

Ideally it would be a function to which i will pass a string like:
--- cut here ---
'blah foo [this is enclosed] bar blah [this is enclosed too] some more dummy
--- cut here --
This function should return an array with values like:

[0]=[this is enclosed]
[1]=[this is enclosed too]

for the above example.

Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Nikos

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Have you tried reading the manual?

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match-all.php

Anon

Thanks for your reply!

But give me some credit...
If you try this on a single line that has 2 or more tags, it gets confused.

it matches the first opening, with the last closing bracket.

so,
---cut here---
<?php
$string="blah [some text] foo [more text] bar";
preg_match_all('/[.*]+/i',$string,$matches);
print_r($matches);
---cut here---

prints:
---cut here---
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[0] => [some text] foo [more text]
)
)

---cut here---

this is not the right think to do 🙂

Anything else?

Anon

Try the ungreedy pattern modifier 'U'

http://www.php.net/manual/en/pcre.pattern.modifiers.php

Btw, vincent replied what he did because of your subject line. You are asking a question about regular expressions but your subject says it's about finding an equivalent for Perl's STDIN. Next time please write a better subject 🙂

Diego

Anon

You are right about the subject, it was my mistake. Actually it was a matter of regular expressions.

Thanks for your reply, it works fine now.

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Including stdin? :-)