trouble with preg_match

[Thorsten Walenzyk]

Hi all,

I'm pretty new to PHP. So far I know regular expression only from Perl

I've written a perl script which I now want to port to PHP. It works in
PErl, but gives my a headache in PHP.

I have a line like this:
"329:47 InitGame:
\.Admin\xxx\.We bsite\www.yyy.de\g_gametype\hq\gamename\Call of
Duty\mapname\mp _ship\protocol\ ..."
I want to get the time at the beginning of the line. Further I need the text
between "gametype\" and "\gamename" ("hq" in this case) and the text
between "mapname\" and "\protocol" ("mp_ship").

The reg ex in Perl looks like this:
if ($line =~
m/(\d+:\d+)[\s]*InitGame:.*?_g ametype\\(.*?)\ \.*?mapname\\(. *?)\\/) {...

It took me quite long time, to find this ugly construct in PHP:
$match_initGame = '(\d+:\d+)\s*In itGame:.*?_game type' . preg_quote("\\" )
.. '(.*?)' . preg_quote("\\g amename") . '.*?' . preg_quote("\\m apname\\") .
'(.*?)' . preg_quote ("\\");
if (preg_match("/$match_initGame/", $line, $matches ) ) {...

Is there is any better way to solve my problem?

Thanks a lot, Thorsten

[Pedro Graca]

Re: trouble with preg_match

Thorsten Walenzyk wrote:[color=blue]
> I have a line like this:
> "329:47 InitGame:
> \.Admin\xxx\.We bsite\www.yyy.de\g_gametype\hq\gamename\Call of
> Duty\mapname\mp _ship\protocol\ ..."
> I want to get the time at the beginning of the line. Further I need the text
> between "gametype\" and "\gamename" ("hq" in this case) and the text
> between "mapname\" and "\protocol" ("mp_ship").[/color]


<?php

$text = '329:47 InitGame:'
. '\.Admin\xxx\.W ebsite\www.yyy.de\g_gametype\hq\gamename\Call of '
. 'Duty\mapname\m p_ship\protocol \...';

$rx = '/
(\d+:\d+) # get the time
.* # ignore any number of anything
gametype # up to "gametype"
\\\\ # followed by a backslash (*)
(.*) # get the "gametype" |
\\\\ # ignore backslash (*)
gamename # and "gamename" |
.* # ignore any number of anything |
mapname\\\\ # up to "mapname\" (*)
(.*) # get the "mapname" |
\\\\protocol # followed by "\protocol" (*)
/x'; # with extended syntax |
// (*) <----------------------------------------'
// a single \ between single quotes (or double quotes) is the
// escape character. As you want a real backslash you have to
// double it.
// But that will get passed as a escape character to the preg_match()
// function! To pass a real backslash to the function, add another
// pair of backslashes and you're all set.

if (!preg_match($r x, $text, $matches)) {
exit("Not found!\n");
}

unset($matches[0]);
print_r($matche s);

?>

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[Thorsten Walenzyk]

Re: trouble with preg_match

Thanks Pedro.

It is somehow strange to use 4 backslashes, but it works.

Thanks, Thorsten


"Pedro Graca" <hexkid@dodgeit .com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:slrncqnebf .vuv.hexkid@ID-203069.user.uni-berlin.de...[color=blue]
> Thorsten Walenzyk wrote:[color=green]
> > I have a line like this:
> > "329:47 InitGame:
> > \.Admin\xxx\.We bsite\www.yyy.de\g_gametype\hq\gamename\Call of
> > Duty\mapname\mp _ship\protocol\ ..."
> > I want to get the time at the beginning of the line. Further I need the[/color][/color]
text[color=blue][color=green]
> > between "gametype\" and "\gamename" ("hq" in this case) and the text
> > between "mapname\" and "\protocol" ("mp_ship").[/color]
>
>
> <?php
>
> $text = '329:47 InitGame:'
> . '\.Admin\xxx\.W ebsite\www.yyy.de\g_gametype\hq\gamename\Call of '
> . 'Duty\mapname\m p_ship\protocol \...';
>
> $rx = '/
> (\d+:\d+) # get the time
> .* # ignore any number of anything
> gametype # up to "gametype"
> \\\\ # followed by a backslash (*)
> (.*) # get the "gametype" |
> \\\\ # ignore backslash (*)
> gamename # and "gamename" |
> .* # ignore any number of anything |
> mapname\\\\ # up to "mapname\" (*)
> (.*) # get the "mapname" |
> \\\\protocol # followed by "\protocol" (*)
> /x'; # with extended syntax |
> // (*) <----------------------------------------'
> // a single \ between single quotes (or double quotes) is the
> // escape character. As you want a real backslash you have to
> // double it.
> // But that will get passed as a escape character to the preg_match()
> // function! To pass a real backslash to the function, add another
> // pair of backslashes and you're all set.
>
> if (!preg_match($r x, $text, $matches)) {
> exit("Not found!\n");
> }
>
> unset($matches[0]);
> print_r($matche s);
>
> ?>
>
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[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

Re: trouble with preg_match

"Thorsten Walenzyk" <thorsten.walen zyk@gmx.de> wrote in message news:<coiqui$eo 0$05$1@news.t-online.com>...[color=blue]
> Thanks Pedro.
>
> It is somehow strange to use 4 backslashes, but it works.[/color]

You may want to know the difference between single quote and double
quote <http://in2.php.net/types.string>

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