reg experssions 2 help

Rayn

Heh, yeah I need some more help with this stuff.. alright here is the prob..

I am using code like this <name value1=this value2=that> in text I use.. as you might guess I define that using other code.. but what the prob is, is that to make that code work I have to get the name part out of it... but I am not to sure how to do that..

exampleish:

$message = "This is some text, <codeName value1=this value2=that>";

// some code here

$codeName = "codeName";

thanks for your time

Rayn

would I use explode() to do it?

sijis

so you want to get the values between the < > characters?
I'm assuming that "codeName" will be different.

// goal:
// return any character 0 or more times after the "<codeName" and before the > character. (case insensitive)
// example: <codeName (return this into a string)>

$message = "This is some text, <codeName value1=this value2=that>";
$getValues = preg_replace(/<([a-z]) (.)>/i,$2,$message);
$split_values = explode(" ",$getValues);

echo $split_values[0];
// this should echo "value=1"

hopefully this gives you an idea.
It might not be what your looking for, but i had fun trying to code this little snippet (that might/might not work)

enjoy.

Rayn

Actually I got that part down, but to get the name part out of <name vale=das vale2=242> is what I am having trouble with.

and thanks for the help.

sijis

i'm guessing, but try this:

//based on my earlier code

//this should strip it out to name=value
$var_pair = split(" ", $split_values[0]);

//this should make it $name == name and $value == value
list($name, $value) = split("=", $var_pair);

i honestly don't have a good answer. i'm sure there is another alternative.

Rayn

Thank you. I believe I am starting to get the general idea 🙂