eregi questions

MrBodean

Hello,
I have two problems I am trying to sort out. Right now I am using these 2 functions
while (eregi("[:space:](href|src|background|action)[:space:]=[:space:]([^ >]+)", $text, $regs))
while (eregi("(url)[:space:]([:space:]*([^ )]+)", $text, $regs))

These are to strip out the actual url or href, src etc, the second is for css tpe formats using url('filename')

Can someone show me how I can combine these two into one function?

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Also if I do a ereg_replace
Is there a way to replace the letters as well as captialized letters?
for example
$line = eregi_replace("hello", "howdy", $line);

if the word is Hello it still gets replace with howdy, is there a way so it matches the case as well? so hello gets replaced with howdy but Hello gets replaced with Howdy?

Thanks,
Jeff

mtmosier

I'm not much of an ereg person, but I'll give it a try.

You could do the ultra simple method of combining them. Put both regexs together in their entirety with a | between them, and surround the whole thing with quotes. Ugly, probably slightly slower, but it should work, and remains true to both regex's.

This is my attempt at combining them. It has a few issues though. It accepts = or ( after any of the terms. It no longer requires a space before href, et al. Probably other issues I forgot. 🙂

eregi("[:space:]*(href|src|background|action|url)[:space:]*[=\\(][:space:]*([^ >\\)]+)", $text, $regs)

As for your second question, I really don't know the necessary ereg, so here's my preg suggestions.

With your particular example you could cheat, since they both start with the same letter, and you only mentioned two alternatives. Just grab the first character from the search and use it in the replacement.

 $line = preg_replace("/(h)ello/i", '\\1owdy', $line);

I imagine you want a more general solution though.

$line = preg_replace_callback("/hello/i", 'mycallback', $line);

function mycallback($matches) {
    $replacestr = 'howdy';
    if ($matches[0]{0} == strtoupper($matches[0]{0})) {
        $replacestr{0} = strtoupper($replacestr{0});
    }
    return $replacestr;
}

Obviously the callback can get a lot more complicated if need be.

MrBodean

Perfect Just what I needed...

Thanks...
Jeff