What is the most efficient way of extracting the first two digits in a
string?
The following is wrong for me, because it only gives me the first
instance of two digits together:
$string = ujdk3ca94abc
preg_match("/\d{2}/",$string,$resu lt);
echo "$result[0]";
//prints 94. However, the result I am looking for is 39
Here's another example:
$string = 'abc 8a bc abc934';
//desired result = 89
Thank you.
Jul 17 '05
14 7184
On 1 Jun 2004 22:33:10 GMT, Tim Van Wassenhove <eu**@pi.be> wrote: In article <40************ ***@nospamun8no spam.com>, Westcoast Sheri wrote: Tim Van Wassenhove wrote: 1-) It works. 2-) I presume it's more efficient than using regular expressions. Up to you proove me wrong :D Answer:
<?php $string = 'a 20adiidkk4kidid 39399399dkkdkkk dk'; $dig = substr(preg_rep lace("/\D/",'',$string),0 ,2); echo $dig; ?>
Takes .000027 to run.
Feel free to run the following script a few times ;) test1 always had a smaller execution time than test2 when i tried....
Actually, there's a bug here...
$start = microtime(); foreach($strin gs as $string) { test1($string,2 ); } $end = microtime(); echo '<br>total: ' . ($end - start);
^
Missing $.
Notice: Use of undefined constant start - assumed 'start'
Minus isn't defined on strings, so it'll cast 'start' to a numeric type. A
string with no numeric characters evaluates to zero when cast to a numeric
type. microtime() returns a string in the following format:
<microseconds past second> <unix timestamp>
... with a space in between.
Casting that to a numeric type evaluates to the first numeric part, up to the
space. So you end up with microseconds past the second, minus zero.
Unfortunately this bears no relationship to actual execution time :-(
Suprisingly, after fixing the bug, the preg_replace method turns out about 3x
faster than the loop.
$start = microtime(true) ;
foreach($string s as $string) {
test1($string,2 );
}
$end = microtime(true) ;
echo '<br>total: ' . ($t1 = $end - $start);
$start = microtime(true) ;
foreach($string s as $string) {
test2($string);
}
$end = microtime(true) ;
echo '<br>total: ' . ($t2 = $end - $start);
echo '<br> t1/t2 = ' . round($t1/$t2, 4) . 'x';
total: 0.004275
total: 0.001488
t1/t2 = 2.873x
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In article <fk************ *************** *****@4ax.com>, Andy Hassall wrote: Suprisingly, after fixing the bug, the preg_replace method turns out about 3x faster than the loop.
*blush* Now, that changes my vision on regular expressions being "slow".
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Tim Van Wassenhove <http://home.mysth.be/~timvw/contact.php>
Tim Van Wassenhove wrote: In article <fk************ *************** *****@4ax.com>, Andy Hassall wrote: Suprisingly, after fixing the bug, the preg_replace method turns out about 3x faster than the loop.
*blush* Now, that changes my vision on regular expressions being "slow".
*giggle* nya nya nyaaaa nya
On 1 Jun 2004 22:55:58 GMT, Tim Van Wassenhove <eu**@pi.be> wrote: In article <fk************ *************** *****@4ax.com>, Andy Hassall wrote: Suprisingly, after fixing the bug, the preg_replace method turns out about 3x faster than the loop.
*blush* Now, that changes my vision on regular expressions being "slow".
Wasn't the result I was expecting, either. Although I can see reasons for it,
e.g. PCRE is all compiled from C, whereas the loop is all PHP so there's more
overhead.
Given the equivalent loop and PCRE regex both in C, I'd have thought the loop
would win hands down.
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