Copying variable part of a string

[Pjotr Wedersteers]

Hello,

I have strings like these:

$line = "Item <name> xxx stock, costs yyy and will sell for amount zzz";

Problem is <name> can consist of 1..n words. Most items are single words,
but some are up to 8 in my example, and there are is no set maximum (well,
max is 80 chars I believe, have to look in the stock db, not too relevant I
think)
I found this out the hard way. I thought I was clever (never do that again)
by doing this:
$words = explode (" ", $line);
$itemname = $words [1];

This only works for single-word names.

Now I want to create or use an existing function that simply copies
everything between Item and the first numerical substr.
The function then should look like:

$itemname = GetSubStr ("Item" , <numerical> , $line);
<numerical> should be a template of some sort I think.

Hope I make myself clear, can you help me ?
TIA
Pjotr

[Daniel Tryba]

Re: Copying variable part of a string

Pjotr Wedersteers <x33159@westert erp.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> $line = "Item <name> xxx stock, costs yyy and will sell for amount zzz";[/color]
....[color=blue]
> Now I want to create or use an existing function that simply copies
> everything between Item and the first numerical substr.
> The function then should look like:
>
> $itemname = GetSubStr ("Item" , <numerical> , $line);
> <numerical> should be a template of some sort I think.[/color]

See the manual for regular expressions (eg http://php.net/preg_match):

/Item(.*?)\d+/


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Daniel Tryba

[steve]

Re: Re: Copying variable part of a string

"Daniel Tryba" wrote:[color=blue]
> Pjotr Wedersteers <x33159@westert erp.com> wrote:[color=green]
> > $line = "Item <name> xxx stock, costs yyy and will sell[/color]
> for amount zzz";
> ....[color=green]
> > Now I want to create or use an existing function that simply[/color]
> copies[color=green]
> > everything between Item and the first numerical substr.
> > The function then should look like:
> >
> > $itemname = GetSubStr ("Item" , <numerical> , $line);
> > <numerical> should be a template of some sort I think.[/color]
>
> See the manual for regular expressions (eg http://php.net/preg_match):
>
> /Item(.*?)\d+/
>
>[/color]

preg_match("/Item\s(.*)\s\d+/", $line, $Arr);
$Item = $Arr[1];

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[Pjotr Wedersteers]

Re: Re: Copying variable part of a string

steve wrote:[color=blue]
> "Daniel Tryba" wrote:[color=green]
> > Pjotr Wedersteers <x33159@westert erp.com> wrote:[color=darkred]
> > > $line = "Item <name> xxx stock, costs yyy and will sell[/color]
> > for amount zzz";
> > ....[color=darkred]
> > > Now I want to create or use an existing function that simply[/color]
> > copies[color=darkred]
> > > everything between Item and the first numerical substr.
> > > The function then should look like:
> > >
> > > $itemname = GetSubStr ("Item" , <numerical> , $line);
> > > <numerical> should be a template of some sort I think.[/color]
> >
> > See the manual for regular expressions (eg[/color]
> http://php.net/preg_match): >[color=green]
> > /Item(.*?)\d+/
> >
> >[/color]
>
> preg_match("/Item\s(.*)\s\d+/", $line, $Arr);
> $Item = $Arr[1];[/color]

Thanks for the tips! I'm studying regexp now... Geez, I've seen less complex
ones in my life, lol. gettin' old!
KR
Pjotr

[steve]

Re: Re: Re: Copying variable part of a string

"Pjotr Wedersteers" wrote:[color=blue]
> steve wrote:[color=green]
> > "Daniel Tryba" wrote:[color=darkred]
> > > Pjotr Wedersteers <x33159@westert erp.com> wrote:
> > > > $line = "Item <name> xxx stock, costs yyy and[/color][/color]
> will sell[color=green][color=darkred]
> > > for amount zzz";
> > > ....
> > > > Now I want to create or use an existing function that[/color][/color]
> simply[color=green][color=darkred]
> > > copies
> > > > everything between Item and the first numerical[/color][/color]
> substr.[color=green][color=darkred]
> > > > The function then should look like:
> > > >
> > > > $itemname = GetSubStr ("Item" , <numerical> ,[/color][/color]
> $line);[color=green][color=darkred]
> > > > <numerical> should be a template of some sort I[/color][/color]
> think.[color=green][color=darkred]
> > >
> > > See the manual for regular expressions (eg[/color]
> > http://php.net/preg_match): >[color=darkred]
> > > /Item(.*?)\d+/
> > >
> > >[/color]
> >
> > preg_match("/Item\s(.*)\s\d+/", $line, $Arr);
> > $Item = $Arr[1];[/color]
>
> Thanks for the tips! I’m studying regexp now... Geez, I’ve
> seen less complex
> ones in my life, lol. gettin’ old!
> KR
> Pjotr[/color]

Pjotr, regex is hard to learn, but once learned, you cannot do without
it.

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