Re: Simple RegEx Question

On Mar 14, 5:32 pm, Curtis Dyer <dye...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bryan A <Galat...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in comp.lang.php:

So I have something exactly like the following string in every one of
db entries. I was going to loop through and delete just that string.
My problem is with the deleting part (I am new to regex).

What I need deleted:
(a1 | b8)

So how would I remove that from a string? The numbers aren't always
going to be 1 and 8 so I assume a wild card would go there.

Thanks for any help,
Bryan

Do the letters preceding the numbers change?  It doesn't seem like
you indicated they do, so maybe try this:

/* Use /i modifier for case insensitive matching. */
$re = '% \( a\d \s+ \| \s+ b\d \) %x';
$data = 'Test test (a2 | b7) test test.';

if (preg_match($re, $data, $m, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE)) {
  printf("Matched data: %s\nOffset at which match starts: %d\n",
    $m[0][0], $m[0][1]);

}  

--
Curtis
$email = str_replace('sig.invalid', 'gmail.com', $from);

Thanks, that is exactly what I was looking for
.

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