small preg_match prob.

Anon

This should be a code that will take out a piece from $playername and give some value to $personality however it seems to be acting very strange:

First case: $playername is "filled" with:
"The Great Mr. Werner" and it works just fine and $personality is "General".

Second case: $playername is "filled" with:
"Sir ildrid the Rogue" and it doesn´t work. It can´t match "Rogue" I have trimed etc but no way in hell it will match. Is there something wrong with my code.

Comments suggestions, please.

Thanks.

The code:

if (preg_match('/Great(.*)./i', $playername, $match)) {
$temp = split (" ", $match[0]);
if ($temp[0] == "Great") { $personality = "General"; }}

if (preg_match('/Rogue (.*)./i', $playername, $match)) {
$temp = split (" ", $match[0]);
if ($temp[0] == "Rogue") { $personality = "Rogue"; }}

Anon

Remove the space after /Rouge (.*)./ior just try /Rogue/

But for this application you could also use
string stristr (string haystack, string needle)
since you are not really using the power of regexp!

if (stristr($playername,"Great")) { $personality = "General"; };
if (stristr($playername,"Rogue")) { $personality = "General"; };

Anon

Thanks!, forgot my other little question:
How is the best way to get the number before the word "Acres"? Everything before can ofcourse be what ever.

3 House of Burlesque Elf The House HaJ 910 Acres

Anon

Fixed it with this:

foreach ($temporar as $t) {
$to = split (" ", $t);
$result = array_reverse($to);

anyone got a better and afer one?

Anon

For this you can use regexp, try (not checked)

preg_match("/(\d+) Acres/i",$test,$match);