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Beginning regex
I have absolutely no idea about regex at all. I am trying to perform email validation in a PHP signup script (to check if a valid email has been entered). I have got a script from the internet but I ...
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preg_replace to insert default value when omitted
I'm trying to work on some regex for a preg_replace that would insert a default key="value" when it is not in the subject.
Here's what I have:
$pattern = '/\[section([^\]]+)(?!type)\]/i';
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preg_replace all newlines within quotes
sorry if this seems like a simple question but I am trying to replace any newline characters that are with a quoted string e.g.
$help = '"Hi this is a string and I really want to replace
any newlines ...
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Remove  from string with regular expressions
I am trying to remove the following characters  from a string. However only »¿is being removed.
Code:
protected function removeSpecialChars($comment)
{
//Remove ''
return ...
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Preg_replace cyrillic word or phrase - not both
I am writing a PHP function which is supposed to convert certain keywords into links. It uses Cyrillic words in UTF-8.
So I came up with this:
function keywords($text){
$keywords = ...
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PHP - Replacing emoticon with meaning
I am analysing informal chat style message for sentiment and other information. I need all of the emoticons to be replaced with their actual meaning, to make it easier for the system to parse the ...
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preg_replace apostrophie for words ending s using regex
Ok, so i am matching any word ending in S and replacing it with 'S for a mysql search, and all works fine..
$check = "string to tests";
if(preg_match("/s\b/", $check)) {
preg_match("/s\b/", ...
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Regex compilation error [duplicate]
i am searching for a regular expression which removes an x at the beginning of a path. Accepted path separators are \, / and . The path can also start with one of these separators but it don't have ...
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Weird behavior in regular expression replacement [duplicate]
I'm doing a regular expression for a linking system, and the syntax looks like this:
<a href=":login">Login</a>
This tells the system that this link should be converted to JS or an HTML ...
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Replacing occurences of a specific word if not proceeded by another specific word?
I have some text like:
*open* blah blah blah blah blah *close* blah blah *open* blah blah *close* blah blah *close*
I was wondering how would I remove/replace any occurrences of *close* which are ...
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Regular Expression for replacing newlines
Just want to know why my regular expression is giving me 2 br tags instead of 1 when the string contains \n\r?
I'm trying to replace \n, \r, \r\n and \n\r with the following:
$string="testing \n\r ...
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how to replace date format in a dynamic string variable?
my variable is a dynamic string variable in this string i have some date value and looks like
$var = 'bd','100','10-05-2013','20-05-2013','alise';
but i want to change this date format like
$var = ...
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Grep all text following a specific format
Hi ALl i have a list that look something like so
curl -x X3SzDf34
curl -x X3SzDf34r
curl -a X3SzDf43
curl -x X3SzDfsdf
curl -a X3SzDfsvx
basically looking to grep all lines that have curl -X and to ...
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How to replace QUOTES like forums with php?
I know I should probably be using preg_replace but I'm not the best with regex. Could someone help me with the code for replacing [QUOTE=user]quote here[/QUOTE] to:
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Optional regex match is being ignored
I have a bit of regex in PHP that isn't doing what I want it to.
What I want:
[segment type="segment_name"]more text here[/segment]
to be changed to:
[segmentclass='segment_name segment']more ...
