[RESOLVED] regular expression ??

[perpetualshaun]

Let's say that I have a string like this:

<Container type="" computers="0" users="15">

And I want to pull the value for computer and users out of there. What's the best way to do that? I know how I could program a couple explodes in there, but I thought maybe there's a better, cleaner way to do this.

[etully]

ereg("<Container type=\"\" computers=\"([0-9]+)\" users=\"([0-9]+)\">",$your_string,$regs);
$computers = $regs[1];
$users = $regs[2];
print "There are $computers computers and $users users.";

[FatalError]

I'd recommend using preg_replace() instead, it's faster and overall more efficient than ereg.

[etully]

Definitely a good suggestion. I was working on finding the right regexp rather than thinking of efficiency.