Question on PHP regular expressions

[sberry]

In PHP I have many more options for functions that do regular
expression than I did in Perl. My question is what is the best one to
use for doing the following:

Give the following:
{Somestring.somestring.somestring} blah blah {somestring} value here
not used {more.text.here}

I want an array like the following:
[0] =Somestring.somestring.somestring
[1] =somestring
[2] =more.text.here

So basically I just want to capture the contents (alpha-numeric +
periods) inside of curly braces.

Thanks for any help.

[Carl]

sberry <se**@buildingonline.comwrites:

In PHP I have many more options for functions that do regular
expression than I did in Perl. My question is what is the best one to
use for doing the following:

Give the following:
{Somestring.somestring.somestring} blah blah {somestring} value here
not used {more.text.here}

I want an array like the following:
[0] =Somestring.somestring.somestring
[1] =somestring
[2] =more.text.here

So basically I just want to capture the contents (alpha-numeric +
periods) inside of curly braces.

Thanks for any help.

This should get you started:

$string = "{Somestring.somestring.somestring} blah blah
{somestring} value here not used {more.text.here}";
$pattern = '/\{.+?\}/';
preg_match_all($pattern, $string, $matches);
print_r($matches);

Hope that helps,

[sberry]

On Nov 8, 11:17 am, Carl <[e-mail]:

sberry <[e-mail]:

In PHP I have many more options for functions that do regular
expression than I did in Perl. My question is what is the best one to
use for doing the following:

Give the following:
{Somestring.somestring.somestring} blah blah {somestring} value here
not used {more.text.here}

I want an array like the following:
[0] =Somestring.somestring.somestring
[1] =somestring
[2] =more.text.here

So basically I just want to capture the contents (alpha-numeric +
periods) inside of curly braces.

Thanks for any help.

This should get you started:

$string = "{Somestring.somestring.somestring} blah blah
{somestring} value here not used {more.text.here}";
$pattern = '/\{.+?\}/';
preg_match_all($pattern, $string, $matches);
print_r($matches);

Hope that helps,

Thanks. That is exactly what I wanted to do. I just added the
PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE so I could also track the string offsets of the
matches.