I have:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43242&cat=aa&id=342342
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43242&cat=aa&body=434&id=232
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43242&cat=aa&call=2323&id=14143434
i would like receive:
this link without parameter id:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43242&cat=aa
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43242&cat=aa&body=434
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43242&cat=aa&call=2323
how this make with PHP? str_replace + regular expression?
preg_replace('~&id=[0-9]+~', '', $str);
Use the appropriate function for this, not regular expressions since URL's aren't regular.
You should then split the query part, which can be done with regular expressions, but I'd like to split on & and then filter out the ID part.
Related
I have a HTML code like this:
##user_name
How can remove the first # by using preg_match?
I just want the preg_replace code.
match # which came before <a tag. try following regular expression
preg_replace("/#(<a)/", "$1", '##user_name');
preg_match — Perform a regular expression match
preg_replace — Perform a regular expression search and replace
So I guess you really need the second:
preg_replace('/^#/', '', '##user_name');
I need to find a regular expression to use for finding the content within and tags for use in PHP. I have tried...
preg_split("<td>([^\"]*)</td>", $table[0]);
But that gives me the PHP error...
Warning: preg_split(): Unknown modifier '(' in C:\xampp\htdocs\.....
Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?
Try this:
preg_match("/<td>([^\"]*)<\/td>/", $table[0], $matches);
But, as a general rule, please, do not try to parse HTML with regexes... :-)
Keep in mind that you need to do some extra work to make sure that the * between <td> and </td> in your regular expression doesn't slurp up entire lines of <td>some text</td>. That's because * is pretty greedy.
To toggle off the greediness of *, you can put a ? after it - this tells it just grab up until the first time it reaches whatever is after the *. So, the regular expression you're looking for is something like:
/<td>(.*?)<\/td>/
Remember, since the regular expression starts and ends with a /, you have to be careful about any / that is inside your regular expression - they have to be escaped. Hence, the \/.
From your regular expression, it looks like you're also trying to exclude any " character that might be between a <td> and </td> - is that correct? If that were the case, you would change the regular expression to use the following:
/<td>([^\"]*?)<\/td>/
But, assuming you don't want to exclude the " character in your matches, your PHP code could look like this, using preg_match_all instead of preg_match.
preg_match_all("/<td>(.*?)<\/td>/", $str, $matches);
print_r($matches);
What you're looking for is in $matches[1].
Use preg_match instead of preg_split
preg_match("|<td>([^<]*)</td>|", $table[0], $m);
print_r($m);
First of all you forgot to wrap regex with delimiters. Also you shouldn't specify closing td tag in regex.
Try the following code. Assuming $table[0] contains html between <table>, </table> tags, it allows to extract any content (including html) from cells of table:
$a_result = array_map(
function($v) { return preg_replace('/<\/td\s*>/i', '', $v); },
array_slice(preg_split('/<td[^>]*>/i', $table[0]), 1)
);
Can anyone give me a quick summary of the differences please?
To my mind, are they both doing the same thing?
str_replace replaces a specific occurrence of a string, for instance "foo" will only match and replace that: "foo". preg_replace will do regular expression matching, for instance "/f.{2}/" will match and replace "foo", but also "fey", "fir", "fox", "f12", etc.
[EDIT]
See for yourself:
$string = "foo fighters";
$str_replace = str_replace('foo','bar',$string);
$preg_replace = preg_replace('/f.{2}/','bar',$string);
echo 'str_replace: ' . $str_replace . ', preg_replace: ' . $preg_replace;
The output is:
str_replace: bar fighters, preg_replace: bar barhters
:)
str_replace will just replace a fixed string with another fixed string, and it will be much faster.
The regular expression functions allow you to search for and replace with a non-fixed pattern called a regular expression. There are many "flavors" of regular expression which are mostly similar but have certain details differ; the one we are talking about here is Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE).
If they look the same to you, then you should use str_replace.
str_replace searches for pure text occurences while preg_replace for patterns.
I have not tested by myself, but probably worth of testing. But according to some sources preg_replace is 2x faster on PHP 7 and above.
See more here: preg_replace vs string_replace.
in twitter
when you write #moustafa
will change to <a href='user/moustafa'>#moustafa</a>
now i want make the same thing
when write #moustafa + space its change #moustafa only
One regular expression that could be used (shamelessly stolen from the #anywhere javascript library mentioned in another answer) would be:
\B\#([a-zA-Z0-9_]{1,20})
This looks for a non–word-boundary (to prevent a#b [i.e. emails] from matching) followed by #, then between one and 20 (inclusive) characters in that character class. Of course, the anything-except-space route, as in other answers; it depends very much on what values are to be (dis)allowed in the label part of the #label.
To use the highlighted regex in PHP, something like the following could be used to replace a string $subject.
$subject = 'Hello, #moustafa how are you today?';
echo preg_replace('/\B\#([a-zA-Z0-9_]{1,20})/', '$0', $subject);
The above outputs something like:
Hello, #moustafa how are you today?
You're looking for a regular expression that matches #username, where username doesn't have a space? You can use:
#[^ ]+
If you know the allowed characters in a username you can be more specific, like if they have to be alphanumeric:
#[A-Za-z0-9]+
Regular Expressions in PHP are just Strings that start and end with the same character. By convention this character is /
So you can use something like this as an argument to any of the many php regular expression functions:
Not space:
"/[^ ]+/"
Alphanumeric only:
"/[A-Za-z0-9]+/"
Why not use the #anywhere javascript library that Twitter have recently released?
There are several libraries that perform this selection and linking for you. Currently I know of Java, Ruby, and PHP libraries under mzsanford's Github account: http://github.com/mzsanford/twitter-text-rb
I'm trying to remove some deprecated code from a site.
Can anyone tell me the preg equivalent of
ereg_replace("<b>","<strong>",$content);
Thanks.
There seems to be no need for regular expressions at all.
a simple str_replace would do:
$cleaned = str_replace ('<b>', '<strong>', $unCleaned);
If you need more complicated replacements, for example checking the attributes, you could do:
$cleaned = preg_replace('/<b(\s[^>]*)?>/', '<strong\\1>', $unCleaned);
But this is by no means perfect; something like <div title="foo->bar"></div> would break the regular expression.
A PCRE equivalent to your ERE regular expression would be:
preg_match("/<b>/", "<strong>", $content)
But as Jacco already noted you don’t need a regular expression at all as you want to replace a constant value.