Hello,
I am trying to split a string that contains parentheses; the aim here is
to keep the part that's before the opening parenthese:
the string (quoted here) is "36 (72 cm)"
First I want to know if the string contains at least an openning
parenthese; if it does, I split it and extract the first token (ie "36 ").
My code follows
if (preg_match("/\(/", $sPermutationNa me)) {
$tokens = explode("\(", $sPermutationNa me);
$sPermutationNa me = $tokens[0];
}
but that does not work. Would anyone care to enlighten me on this one? 3 1744
On 24 Sep, 13:52, Henri <h...@dontbothe r.fuwrote:
Hello,
I am trying to split a string that contains parentheses; the aim here is
to keep the part that's before the opening parenthese:
the string (quoted here) is "36 (72 cm)"
First I want to know if the string contains at least an openning
parenthese; if it does, I split it and extract the first token (ie "36 ").
My code follows
if (preg_match("/\(/", $sPermutationNa me)) {
$tokens = explode("\(", $sPermutationNa me);
$sPermutationNa me = $tokens[0];
}
but that does not work. Would anyone care to enlighten me on this one?
"does not work", ahh how helpful! That tells us exactly what you are
actually seeing - NOT!!!
As a matter of interest, why are you exploding on "\(", when \ doesn't
appear in the target string?
Henri wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to split a string that contains parentheses; the aim here is
to keep the part that's before the opening parenthese:
the string (quoted here) is "36 (72 cm)"
First I want to know if the string contains at least an openning
parenthese; if it does, I split it and extract the first token (ie "36 ").
My code follows
if (preg_match("/\(/", $sPermutationNa me)) {
$tokens = explode("\(", $sPermutationNa me);
$sPermutationNa me = $tokens[0];
}
but that does not work. Would anyone care to enlighten me on this one?
Hi Henri
regular expressions would be on overkill here.
strtok($a, "(")
does exactly what you want - returns a portion of the string before "(".
If there's no "(" , the whole string will be returned.
--
gosha bine
extended php parser ~ http://code.google.com/p/pihipi
blok ~ http://www.tagarga.com/blok
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 06:31:28 -0700, Captain Paralytic wrote:
On 24 Sep, 13:52, Henri <h...@dontbothe r.fuwrote:
>Hello,
I am trying to split a string that contains parentheses; the aim here is to keep the part that's before the opening parenthese:
the string (quoted here) is "36 (72 cm)" First I want to know if the string contains at least an openning parenthese; if it does, I split it and extract the first token (ie "36 "). My code follows
if (preg_match("/\(/", $sPermutationNa me)) { $tokens = explode("\(", $sPermutationNa me); $sPermutationNa me = $tokens[0];
}
but that does not work. Would anyone care to enlighten me on this one?
"does not work", ahh how helpful! That tells us exactly what you are
actually seeing - NOT!!!
mmh... forgive me. What I clumsily tried to mean is that the preg_match
did not seem to see any parenthese in the string and therefore did not
execute the two following statements.
As a matter of interest, why are you exploding on "\(", when \ doesn't
appear in the target string?
because I thought that escaping the parenthese would avoid a compilation
error due to the code's being misinterpreted (ie: reporting a parenthese
mismatch).
Anyway, I think I have a solution now. This thread has been closed and replies have been disabled. Please start a new discussion. Similar topics |
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