On Saturday 30 April 2005 03:42 pm, Alan Chandler wrote: > I am using PHP and I am trying to parse a string into substrings delimited by > a single character. In some instances this is a ',' in others it will be '='. > > I think the php function preg_split is the one to use, but I need find the > right regular expression to match the delimeter character. Not being an > expert and seeing its just not an obvious single character (see below) it has > confused me completely. > > Unfortunately a subset of the substrings themselves may have ',' or '=' signs > in them, although each string in this subset will itself have had the > addslashes() function performed on it to escape internal quote characters and > then completely surrounded in a pair of single quote characters. > > In otherwords my regular expression does not want to match a ',' (or in the > other case a '=') if it is inside an unescaped quote. > > So can any regular expression experts out there help me define the right one > to match the criteria I have described. > > TIA > -- > Alan Chandler > http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk > > You know... if I ask this sorta question all I get is RTFM and in reality that's the correct answer... When I had regex questions I bought a couple books and spent hours and hours reading and experimenting till I figured out what I needed... My personal thoughts here is, this guys' gettin a free pass... while I ask for help on a legitimate topic like my apt CDROM method fuckin up and nobody gives it a second look... GO FIGURE.. :-(
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