Regualr Expression

[willl69]

Hi,

Just wondering if anybody can help me out with a regular expression.

What i need to do is match a sting of 5+ words, with the words in any
order. The below will perform the operation -

^(word1|word2|w ord3|word4|word 5)+$

Although this works, this will also match alot of stuff that contains any
of those words, not contains all the words, which is what i need.

Any info greatly appreciated, i can ellaborate on the problem if needed,

Cheers

Will

[lister]

Re: Regualr Expression

On Feb 23, 11:59 am, "willl69" <will...@gmail. comwrote:

Hi,
>
Just wondering if anybody can help me out with a regular expression.
>
What i need to do is match a sting of 5+ words, with the words in any
order. The below will perform the operation -
>
^(word1|word2|w ord3|word4|word 5)+$
>
Although this works, this will also match alot of stuff that contains any
of those words, not contains all the words, which is what i need.
>
Any info greatly appreciated, i can ellaborate on the problem if needed,
>
Cheers
>
Will

^(word1|word2|w ord3|word4|word 5){5}$

Will require 5 words, but this will still let your user enter the same
word 5 times. Do you need an instance of all 5 words?

[Janwillem Borleffs]

Re: Regualr Expression

willl69 schreef:

Just wondering if anybody can help me out with a regular expression.
>
What i need to do is match a sting of 5+ words, with the words in any
order. The below will perform the operation -
>
^(word1|word2|w ord3|word4|word 5)+$
>
Although this works, this will also match alot of stuff that contains any
of those words, not contains all the words, which is what i need.
>
Any info greatly appreciated, i can ellaborate on the problem if needed,
>

The following will report invalid words, but won't check that all words
are present:

$sentence = 'word1word2';

if (count(preg_spl it('/(word1|word2|wo rd3|word4|word5 )/',
$sentence,
-1,
PREG_SPLIT_NO_E MPTY))) {
print 'unknown words found';
}


JW

[willl69]

Re: Regular Expression

That would work, however i need it in the one regular expression if
possible as it needs to port across platforms (ie php, mysql, perl). Its
highly possible that it is completely impossible, just trying to save my
self extra coding

[Rik]

Re: Regular Expression

On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:48:35 +0100, willl69 <willl69@gmail. comwrote:

That would work, however i need it in the one regular expression if
possible as it needs to port across platforms (ie php, mysql, perl). Its
highly possible that it is completely impossible, just trying to save my
self extra coding
>

The only way I see it done in a regular expressions is a hidous nested
beast of a regex, which details all of the possibilities. Regex is
certainly no way to go here.
--
Rik Wasmus