Regular expression help please (hopefully simple)

[Reckless]

I've got a file with this in it:
[Event "Some string data"]

The data I'd like extracted is within the quotes: Some string data

I can read the file out and extract (using string positions) the data I'd
like but it would neater if I use a regular expression. Only problem is I've
never seen a working example of this type of extraction and am completely
new to PHP.

Thanks in advance

[John]

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I've got a file with this in it:
[Event "Some string data"]

The data I'd like extracted is within the quotes: Some string data

I can read the file out and extract (using string positions) the data I'd
like but it would neater if I use a regular expression. Only problem is I've never seen a working example of this type of extraction and am completely
new to PHP.

Thanks in advance

$MyString = "Event \"Some string data\"" ;
preg_match("/^Event \"([^\"]+)\"$/", $MyString, $RegArray) ;
echo $RegArray[1] ; # should display : Some string data

--
John
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[Michael Fesser]

.oO(John)

$MyString = "Event \"Some string data\"" ;
preg_match("/^Event \"([^\"]+)\"$/", $MyString, $RegArray) ;

JFTR: You can also use single quotes, this avoids the ugly escaping,
e.g.

preg_match('/Event "(.+)"/sU', ...);

Micha

[Reckless]

Hi,

Thanks for the sample. Unfortunately I'm getting a null return value. This
looks to be a problem as my input line has square brackets in the source
string. If you could describe the components of the regular expression
string - this bit: ("/^Event \"([^\"]+)\"$/") perhaps I can add them in.

Thanks again!

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I've got a file with this in it:
[Event "Some string data"]

The data I'd like extracted is within the quotes: Some string data

I can read the file out and extract (using string positions) the data I'd like but it would neater if I use a regular expression. Only problem is

I've

never seen a working example of this type of extraction and am completely new to PHP.

Thanks in advance

$MyString = "Event \"Some string data\"" ;
preg_match("/^Event \"([^\"]+)\"$/", $MyString, $RegArray) ;
echo $RegArray[1] ; # should display : Some string data

--
John
www.realposition.com

[Justin Koivisto]

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I've got a file with this in it:
[Event "Some string data"]

The data I'd like extracted is within the quotes: Some string data

I can read the file out and extract (using string positions) the data I'dlike but it would neater if I use a regular expression. Only problem is

I've

never seen a working example of this type of extraction and am completelynew to PHP.

$MyString = "Event \"Some string data\"" ;
preg_match( "/^Event \"([^\"]+)\"$/", $MyString, $RegArray) ;
echo $RegArray[1] ; # should display : Some string data

Hi,

Thanks for the sample. Unfortunately I'm getting a null return value. This
looks to be a problem as my input line has square brackets in the source
string. If you could describe the components of the regular expression
string - this bit: ("/^Event \"([^\"]+)\"$/") perhaps I can add them in.

Try something like:
preg_match('/^\[Event "(.*)(?!<(" \]))"\]/sU', $str, $matches);

That would look for
[Event "

At the beginning of a line, then match everything until it finds"
"]

Then $matches[1] would have the "data"

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Justin Koivisto - sp**@koivi.com
http://www.koivi.com

[Reckless]

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.oO(John)

$MyString = "Event \"Some string data\"" ;
preg_match("/^Event \"([^\"]+)\"$/", $MyString, $RegArray) ;

JFTR: You can also use single quotes, this avoids the ugly escaping,
e.g.

preg_match('/Event "(.+)"/sU', ...);

Micha

That's great thanks :)

Any recommended reading on the syntax of those pattern match strings? TIA!

[kingofkolt]

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I've got a file with this in it:
[Event "Some string data"]

The data I'd like extracted is within the quotes: Some string data

I can read the file out and extract (using string positions) the data I'd
like but it would neater if I use a regular expression. Only problem is I've never seen a working example of this type of extraction and am completely
new to PHP.

Thanks in advance

$tmp = '[Event "Some string data"]';
$tmp2 = str_replace( array( '[Event "', '"]' ), '', $tmp );

[Michael Fesser]

.oO(Reckless)

"Michael Fesser" <ne*****@gmx.ne t> wrote in message
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preg_match('/Event "(.+)"/sU', ...);

That's great thanks :)

Any recommended reading on the syntax of those pattern match strings? TIA!

The manual? ;)

Short explanation of the pattern above:

/ opening pattern delimiter
Event " exact string match
( start of subpattern, this will be returned as result
.. any char ...
+ ... in any number, but at least one
) close subpattern
" exact string match
/ closing delimiter
s modifier: the dot . will also match on newlines
U modifier: all quantifiers (+ for example) turn to
ungreedy and match the shortest possible result (default
is greedy with matching the longest possible result)

HTH
Micha