Regular expressions patterns

[ogo796]

hi everyone

can anyone help me with the php pattern that search the following string and get the below patterns.

"2004_8.rtf " (November) S v Mimi(000/00) [2004] NAME 8;
"2005_9.rtf " (November) S v Mimi(000/01) [2005] NAME 9;

i want the regular expression patterns that match this : [2005] NAME 9 ; or [2004] NAME 8; on the above strings.

[Atli]

Hi.

What have you tried so far?

[dlite922]

hi everyone

i want the regular expression patterns that match this : [2005] NAME 9 ; or [2004] NAME 8; on the above strings.

Please tell us what you wanted to match.

Do you want it to match only 2004 and 2005? all years, any year? years greater than a particular year?

also

what does "NAME" mean? is it just the exact string all capital? is it any four letter word in any case (upper or lower)? can it be only certain names?

again the digit

is it a digit range? how large is the range? 1 to 9 or 0 to infinity?

These are the type of questions you should be answering when you're telling us a pattern to match.

here's an example:

if(preg_match_all("/.+\[[0-9]{4}\]\sNAME\s[0-9]{1}/",$yourVar,$matches))
{
   echo "I found These:\n";
   print_r($matches);
}
else
{
   echo "Didn't find anything";
}

That will match any line that has any characters in front followed by a whitespace character. Followed by a four digit number in brackets, then a space followed by the string "NAME", another space, and finally a 1 digit number.



Let us know,



Dan