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need help for regex

Hello folks,

I want to retrieve full name, city name, state and country from
following string:
"(Firstname Lastname - Traverse City, MI United States)"

I think maybe a regex can be a solution. However I don't have
much knowledge on it. I need help. Thanks in advance!

Alex Shi

Jul 17 '05 #1
3 1959
Alex Shi wrote:
I want to retrieve full name, city name, state and country from
following string:
"(Firstname Lastname - Traverse City, MI United States)"


No more constraints? What does a state name look like, for example?

preg_match(
'`\((.*) - (.*), ([A-Z]{2}) ([^)]*)\)`sU',
$string,
$array);

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Jock
Jul 17 '05 #2
On 2004-03-07, Alex Shi <ch****@stonix.com> wrote:
Hello folks,

I want to retrieve full name, city name, state and country from
following string:
"(Firstname Lastname - Traverse City, MI United States)"

I think maybe a regex can be a solution. However I don't have
much knowledge on it. I need help. Thanks in advance!


Have a look at http://be.php.net/manual/en/function.sscanf.php

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Jul 17 '05 #3
"Alex Shi" <ch****@stonix.com> wrote in message news:<ZP*******************@nntp-post.primus.ca>...
Hello folks,

I want to retrieve full name, city name, state and country from
following string:
"(Firstname Lastname - Traverse City, MI United States)"

I think maybe a regex can be a solution. However I don't have
much knowledge on it. I need help. Thanks in advance!


This might help you <http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/>

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Jul 17 '05 #4

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