Regex help needed

[jriley]

Hello. After using php for more then a year the one thing that I still have a problem with is regex. I'm in the process of making an app to access imap services without requiring php to be built with the imap extension.
I need help with some regex though. I want to keep just the last word in a string. Heres an example, its a list of my test users mailboxes:
LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Inbox"
LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Sent Items
LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Drafts"
LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "test 2"

I want to keep the last words of each string, such as Inbox, Sent Items, etc, with or without quotes,
Can anybody give me a hand with this?
Thanks in advance

[angeljusto]

I didn't check it, but it could be something simple as:

ereg("[[:space:]]+"."[[:space:]]+["']?(.+)["']?$",$line,$reg);

suposing that the part:
"." "
is always like you put it, this will match:
an space + a double quote+ a dot + a double quote + an space + an optional quote single or double + any character any number of times but at least one needed + an optional single or double quote + an end of line.

It will save the name (the part inside brackets) on $reg[1].

[ednark]

you might want to look up the dl() function, it allows you to load a module at the php lvl after the apache lvl has passed.. if you could get a shared modules version of the imap you would like to use, you could have load it yourself for your scripts only... and if there is a configuration problem where you can't get access to php.ini for the system you can always manually set many varibale vi ini_set().. then you could always distriute the shared object with your code

this is a better solution for a one server hack, rather than for general distribution however