Re: [PHP] ereg() problem

jekillen wrote:
Hello php list;

I am having trouble with ereg().
The following is the problem code
$x = ereg("<route name='$to' x='../(.*)/in' rec='.*' />", $get_route, $m);
do we need to break out of the text to include the $to variable??

testing $route I get:
do you mean $get_route?

$route = $m[1];
print $route.'<br>';
jk/in' rec='a_378e6dc4.xml' /> (out put of print)
Is this an example of th input?

What does an actual line of $get_route look like?

do a var_dump($m); and show output

jk is all I am looking for but
is it greed that is missing the
forward slash and the single quote?
It seems like every time I do this I have to monkey around
with it until I get what I want. I have even changed the
formatting of files just so a regular expression would
work without this sort of trial and error.
Is there a way I can turn off greed in php's regex?
I am using php v5.1.2 with Apache 1.3.34
Thanks in advance.
JK


or better yet, try this

I am assuming on the actual structure of $get_route but the following return to me $match[1] = '../jk'

$to = 'something';
$get_route = "<route name='something' x='../jk/in' rec='998asdf' />";
preg_match("|<route name='".$to."' x='(\.\./.*)/in' rec='.*' />|", $get_route, $matches);
var_dump($matches);



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