Regular Expressions

[BulldogGC]

http://01jetta:leafs99@www

Say I had that string.
And from it I only wanted to show

1st: Username
2nd: Password

How would I delete everything else besides what I'm looking for.

[laserlight]

I believe you could use the parse_url() function.
Read the PHP manual for more info

[hi-liter]

preg_split should do it:

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-split.php

[laserlight]

I dont think you should use preg_split() since PHP already provides a function for that.

[hi-liter]

i looked at parse_url, but couldn't seem to get the info that BulldogGC wanted out of the "URL" supplied...

parse_url appears to want to kick out the following pieces...

$url[scheme] = http
$url[host] = www.php.net
$url[path] = /download-php.php3
$url[query] = csel=br

but with a string like "http://01jetta:leafs99@www" it doesn't seem to like or know the parts to it as it's not a 'normal' url.

preg_split can do it like:

<?php

$foo = "http://01jetta:leafs99@www";
$fooSplit = preg_split("(/|:|@)","$foo");

echo ("
$fooSplit[3]
<br>
$fooSplit[4]
");

?>

however i am FAR from Guru, and am easily enlightened. just trying to help out, and hope i don't do more damage than good.

[laserlight]

interesting, I get:

Array ( [scheme] => http [host] => www [user] => 01jetta [pass] => leafs99 [path] => )

EDIT:
I used:

<?php
$url = parse_url("http://01jetta:leafs99@www");
print_r($url);
?>

[hi-liter]

well imo you should be writing examples for php.net, i try theirs and get errors...
thanks for the enlightenment. 🙂

[laserlight]

well imo you should be writing examples for php.net, i try theirs and get errors...

🙂
thanks for the interesting compliment