[Resolved] Regexp trouble

Aceman87

I have trouble with this bit of code below. I would like it to return only the 41241597 part
(the contents of the first parentheses), or in other words make it lazier...
But I am not clear on how (.*) should be modified.

It would be good also to have a code that would return all the parentheses separately.
Like "41241597, 234,48 MiB", but I think I can manage that myself after some pondering :p

All help greatly appreciated 🙂
Thank you !

<?php  

$content = '01 (41241597).avi</a> (234.48 MiB)';  

$begintag = "\(";  

$endtag = "\)";    

preg_match("/($begintag)(.*)($endtag)/i", $content, $hits);    

echo $hits[2]."<br>";  

?>

bubblenut

Put a question mark after the star. I'm going to use code tags rather than php ones here because that way the backslashes aren't stripped.

$content = '01 (41241597).avi</a> (234.48 MiB)';
preg_match_all('/\(.*?\)/', $content, $matches);
echo($matches[1][0].', '.$matches[1][1]);

HTH
Bubble

Aceman87

Oh, thank you very much !! 😃
I am gonna try that right away !

Aceman87

Umm, the code didn't work unfortunately :bemused: but I kept addapting my old code with yours
until it started to (boy that was hard work).
Now the code looks like this:

<body bgcolor="#A2D4F5">

<b>Matched:</b><br>
<?php
$sisalto = '16 Finnish (B7B92506).avi</a> (178.80 MiB)';

preg_match_all("/\(.*?\)/i", $sisalto, $out, PREG_SET_ORDER);

echo $out[0][0] . "\n";
print "<br><b>this is the other one:</b><br>";
echo $out[1][0] . "\n";
?>
</body>

And the prin out looks like this:

Matched:

(B7B92506)

this is the other one:

(178.80 Mi😎

But I wonder why the results have parentheses around them ?
Do you (or someone else) know how I could get rid of those ? 😕
Thanks for all the help 😃

tsinka

Hi,

Try

<body bgcolor="#A2D4F5">

<b>Matched:</b><br>
<?php
$sisalto = '16 Finnish (B7B92506).avi</a> (178.80 MiB)';

preg_match_all("/\\((.*?)\\)/i", $sisalto, $out, PREG_SET_ORDER);

echo $out[0][1] . "\n";
print "<br><b>this is the other one:</b><br>";
echo $out[1][1] . "\n";
?>
</body>

Thomas

Aceman87

YAY ! It works ! Thanks you Thomas 😃