regular expression syntax basics

[deko]

I'm trying to match top-level domains, where $sub = top level domain

if ( eregi("^com$ | ^org$ | ^net$ | ^biz$ | ^info$ | ^edu$ | ^gov$ | ^int$ |
^mil$", $sub) )

{
do stuff here
}

I've tried quoting each one individually ( "^com$" | "^net$" | ... ) but
that does not work either. How are quotes supposed to be used here? Should
I use a single quote? What's the difference?

[deko]

> I'm trying to match top-level domains, where $sub = top level domain

if ( eregi("^com$ | ^org$ | ^net$ | ^biz$ | ^info$ | ^edu$ | ^gov$ | ^int$ | ^mil$", $sub) )

{
do stuff here
}

I've tried quoting each one individually ( "^com$" | "^net$" | ... ) but
that does not work either. How are quotes supposed to be used here? Should I use a single quote? What's the difference?

Another example (that works, but could be imporoved, I think) is this:

if ( (eregi("bot",$agent)) || (ereg("Google",$agent)) ||
(ereg("Slurp",$agent)) || (ereg("Scooter",$agent)) ||
(eregi("Spider",$agent)) || (eregi("Infoseek",$agent)) ||
(eregi("W3C_Validator",$agent)) || (eregi("ia_archiver",$agent)) )
{
do stuff here
}

Is there a way to avoid the "||" statements?

[Justin Koivisto]

deko wrote:

I'm trying to match top-level domains, where $sub = top level domain

if ( eregi("^com$ | ^org$ | ^net$ | ^biz$ | ^info$ | ^edu$ | ^gov$ | ^int$ |
^mil$", $sub) )

{
do stuff here
}

I've tried quoting each one individually ( "^com$" | "^net$" | ... ) but
that does not work either. How are quotes supposed to be used here? Should
I use a single quote? What's the difference?

Try more like this:
eregi("^(com|org|net|biz|info|edu|gov|int|mil)$", $sub)

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http://www.koivi.com

[deko]

> Try more like this:

eregi("^(com|org|net|biz|info|edu|gov|int|mil)$", $sub)

I'll give it a shot. Do you think I could apply the same syntax to this:

if ( (eregi("bot",$agent)) || (ereg("Google",$agent)) ||
(ereg("Slurp",$agent)) || (ereg("Scooter",$agent)) ||
(eregi("Spider",$agent)) || (eregi("Infoseek",$agent)) ||
(eregi("W3C_Validator",$agent)) || (eregi("ia_archiver",$agent)) )
{
do stuff here
}

[Justin Koivisto]

deko wrote:

I'm trying to match top-level domains, where $sub = top level domain

if ( eregi("^com$ | ^org$ | ^net$ | ^biz$ | ^info$ | ^edu$ | ^gov$ | ^int$

|

^mil$", $sub) )

{
do stuff here
}

I've tried quoting each one individually ( "^com$" | "^net$" | ... ) but
that does not work either. How are quotes supposed to be used here?

Should

I use a single quote? What's the difference?

Another example (that works, but could be imporoved, I think) is this:

if ( (eregi("bot",$agent)) || (ereg("Google",$agent)) ||
(ereg("Slurp",$agent)) || (ereg("Scooter",$agent)) ||
(eregi("Spider",$agent)) || (eregi("Infoseek",$agent)) ||
(eregi("W3C_Validator",$agent)) || (eregi("ia_archiver",$agent)) )
{
do stuff here
}

Is there a way to avoid the "||" statements?

if (
(eregi("(bot|Google|Slurp|Scooter|Spider|Infoseek| W3C_Validator|ia_archiver)",$agent))
)

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

[deko]

> if (

(eregi("(bot|Google|Slurp|Scooter|Spider|Infoseek| W3C_Validator|ia_archiver)
",$agent)) )

Cool!! Thanks! That's much better...

As an aside, are there many cases where a domain would appear as:

something.com.something

Is that only for international domains?

[Michael Fesser]

.oO(deko)

I'm trying to match top-level domains, where $sub = top level domain

You could also do it without a regex:

$gTLD = array('com', 'org', 'net', ...);
if (in_array(strtolower($sub), $gTLD)) {
// do something
}

Micha

[Michael Fesser]

.oO(deko)

Another example (that works, but could be imporoved, I think) is this:

if ( (eregi("bot",$agent)) || (ereg("Google",$agent)) ||
[...]
Much to slow.
Is there a way to avoid the "||" statements?

Another idea:

$agents = array(
'bot', 'Google', 'Slurp',
'Scooter', 'Spider', 'Infoseek',
'W3_Validator', 'ia_archiver'
);
$pattern = sprintf('#%s#i', implode($agents, '|'));

if (preg_match($pattern, $agent)) {
// do stuff here
}

Micha

[Justin Koivisto]

deko wrote:

As an aside, are there many cases where a domain would appear as:

something.com.something

Is that only for international domains?

You mean like example.com.uk ?

If so, the tld is "uk" (country codes)...

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

[deko]

> $agents = array(

'bot', 'Google', 'Slurp',
'Scooter', 'Spider', 'Infoseek',
'W3_Validator', 'ia_archiver'
);
$pattern = sprintf('#%s#i', implode($agents, '|'));

if (preg_match($pattern, $agent)) {
// do stuff here
}

I think I understand... is '#%s#i' removing commas? what does sprintf do?

But doesn't creating and imploding the array add an extra step - as opposed
to something like:

eregi ( "(bot|Google|Slurp|Scooter)" , $agent )

[deko]

When using a regex like this:

eregi("(bot|google|infoseek|w3c_validator|ia_archi ver)", $agent)

Can I put meta characters within the parentheses, like this:

eregi("(bot$|google|infoseek|w3c_validator|ia_arch iver)", $agent) )

So it would match "robot" or "superbot", as well as just "bot".

[deko]

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.oO(deko)

When using a regex like this:

eregi("(bot|google|infoseek|w3c_validator|ia_arch iver)", $agent)

Can I put meta characters within the parentheses, like this:

eregi("(bot$|google|infoseek|w3c_validator|ia_arc hiver)", $agent) )

So it would match "robot" or "superbot", as well as just "bot".

Yes, but you have to do it in regex syntax:

.*bot

This matches the literal 'bot' which may be preceeded by any char (.) in
any number (*).

Micha

But isn't bot$ saying: match a "b" followed by an "o" followed by a "t"
followed by an end-of-line?
But then again, I suppose it's unlikely that "bot" will be followed by an
end of line in an agent string...

[Michael Fesser]

.oO(deko)

But isn't bot$ saying: match a "b" followed by an "o" followed by a "t"
followed by an end-of-line?
Hmm, true. ;)

OK, I confused it with your other question with the TLDs with the
explicit start and end match (^ and $).
But then again, I suppose it's unlikely that "bot" will be followed by an
end of line in an agent string...

Yep. I think just 'bot' should be fine.

Micha

[deko]

> Yep. I think just 'bot' should be fine.

Agreed - in this case I think .*bot and bot should return the same thing:

eregi("(bot|google|infoseek|etc...|ia_archiver)", $agent)

Where I was confused was where to use quotes and meta characters. I have a
bunch of other optimizations to do now that I've figured it out...

Thanks for the help!