Bit of Reg Expression help please.

[Stelf]

I'm having a slight problem with regular expression, my understanding of reg expression has failed me. I hope someone suggest a better pattern.

<?
$moddy = "{~koop){name}{nick}";

if ($zeb = preg_match_all("/{[^~](\S*)}/i", $moddy, $match, PREG_SET_ORDER))
{
	echo "<PRE>";
	print_r($match);
}
?>

I'm looking to extract the following 'name' 'nick' but seperately and not extract any tag starting with '~'

Currently the result is:

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => {name}{nick}
            [1] => ame}{nick
        )

)

Thanks in advanced.

[lilleman]

Try this pattern:

/\{([^\s~}])\}/i

-- lilleman

[Stelf]

Sadly that pattern did not return any results for me.

The actual line i'm trying to parse is:

<td><a href="{~url}">{~name} - {name}{nick}</a></td>

I'm building a small custom template engine (mainly for experiance, but will be using it on my own projects), and its 90% there at the moment, this extract is from a 'loop' section, the ~ placeholders refer to a key in a specified array (which is specified at the start of the loop), the loops are all working, but I decided i'd like to use the static placeholders (without ~) inside loops also.

The static placeholders work fine outside 'loops', but inside the loop I need to obtain the placeholders name and then replace the contents.

[lilleman]

Oh, sorry. Right now, the pattern will only work on tags that look like this:

{t}

That's because I forgot to use a repetition character ( * or + ) in the pattern. Since I suppose that there must be at least one character between { and } I'll use the + character.

/\{(?<!~)([^\}]+)\}/i

Does that work better?

-- lilleman