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filburt1

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filburt1

04-23-2003, 10:00 PM

This may look like pure nonsense:

PHP Code:


			
$s = preg_replace("/\[mycode\](.*)\[\/mycode\]/siU", "<b>\\1</b>", $s);

...but it converts anything in $s that's in the format "[mycode]something[/mycode]" to "<b>something</b>". This is thanks to regular expressions, a series of usually arcane-looking characters in a hideous and unreadable string that are extremely powerful once you know how to use them. vB uses them everywhere, and after I got over the very sharp learning curve, I use them everywhere I can now. You'd be amazed at how much it can simplify your code.

A regexp (or regex) reference that I use is at http://www.english.uga.edu/humcomp/perl/regex2a.html (that's for Perl but the expressions themselves are almost exactly the same). Also see http://www.php.net/preg_replace , http://www.php.net/preg_match , and http://www.php.net/preg_match_all , as well as all the other preg_...() functions.

04-24-2003, 09:18 AM

Dean C

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Good tip filburt. I know how useful they are now

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07-03-2003, 12:31 PM

Kriek

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My Regular Expressions are rusty, but I wholeheartedly concur on their potency seeing that I now use them with REGEXP in MySQL queries, while previously only utilizing them within Perl or PHP. I highly recommend this article.

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