regex problem

[procoder]

I am trying to capture a string but ran into a problem

This is how the string always is:

x (stuff here),

x = any chars and any amount

now it works with the pattern before but the problem occures when (stuff here) has another string inside it with "space(" as seen below, any way to fix this?

$pattern = "/(.+) \(.+\)\,/";
$line = "bob (xx ()xx),";

 preg_match($pattern, $line, $matches);

 var_dump($matches);

matches[2] = 

"bob (xx"

p.s.: I am just trying to get the "x" part, and before going to php to do the work i would like to see if there is a better way to do my reg expression

[phphp]

Is this y r looking 4 ?

<?php
$pattern = "/[(](.+)[)],/"; 

$line = "bob (xx ()xx),"; 

preg_match($pattern, $line, $matches); 

echo $matches;

?>
result: xx ()xx

[procoder]

Let me clear that up, I just need to grab bob, and nothing else, the first x I ment, but with my query it will grab (xx also

[drew010]

<?php

$reg = '/([\w\d]+)\s\((.*?)\),/';

$str = 'bob (xx ()xx),';

preg_match($reg, $str, $matches);

print_r($matches);

?>

Array
(
    [0] => bob (xx ()xx),
    [1] => bob
    [2] => xx ()xx
)

[procoder]

Thanks for the reply drew,

That works great except "bob" could be anything, example:

bob123$%^&*
bob(boob)
aswell as unicode support

e.t.c, so using \w\d didnt quite work

for now I am using this code to manually fix this issue.

	if($str = strrpos($matches[2], ' (')) {
								$name = substr($matches[2], 0, $str);
							} else {
								$name = $matches[2];
							}

[drew010]

use
$reg = '/([\S]+)\s((.*?)),/';
instead and it should do what you want.

[procoder]

drew010 wrote:

use
$reg = '/([\S]+)\s((.*?)),/';
instead and it should do what you want.

it could be "my name (thisis (annoying))"

there really is no limit on what "my name" could contain, the only exception is that the string ends in a space followed by a ( , then a trailing ), to end it. even "my name" can have a ( ) of its own.

sorry, I know this is quite annoying 🙂

[drew010]

<?php

$reg = '/(.*?)\s\((.*?)\),/';

$str = 'my nameØ *($$is drew010$$)* (thisis (annoying)),';

preg_match($reg, $str, $matches);

print_r($matches);

?> 

closer yet?

[procoder]

drew010 wrote:

<?php

$reg = '/(.*?)\s\((.*?)\),/';

$str = 'my nameØ *($$is drew010$$)* (thisis (annoying)),';

preg_match($reg, $str, $matches);

print_r($matches);

?> 

closer yet?

😃

Adopt me?

Thanks alot drew