[RESOLVED] Regular Expressions, Tough Time, any generators?

[iBuddy]

Is there any generators online that I can use with regular expressions, Im having a hard time figuring this stuff out an dI been trying to study it.

A good site I found it:

http://weblogtoolscollection.com/regex/regex.php

However it's more trial and error then anything and I want to know how you guys got use to this?

Say for example I wanted to preg_replace the following string

$title = "50 Cent - In Da Club";

Someone told me to do:
$strtitle = preg_replace('/. - (\w+)./', '', $title);

That did not work, but I don't wnat a easy answer either, I also want to understand what this programmer is doing and how he came up with it. I could not find what the "w" means I often see that in reg exp commands with letters, what do those do? Also what would be the correct statement for that string.

What I want is to break the string $title into 2 strings:
$artist = 50 Cent
$song = In Da Club

Thanks to anyone help me with this.

[bogu]

\w A single word character - alphanumeric and underscore.
\W A single non-word character.

Try this one:

$title = "50 Cent - In Da Club";
preg_match('/(.*) - (.*)/', $title, $tmp);
$artist = $tmp[1];
$song = $tmp[2];

[iBuddy]

Okay when put echo $tmp it says Array which makes sense, but how do I just echo the "50 Cent" part? and the same for just the "In Da Club"?

[bogu]

I reedit my post ...

[iBuddy]

awesome that makes more sense, appreciate the time

[bogu]

Np, I'm glad that I could help.

GL & HF coding. 😃