regular expression

I am having a very difficult time finding a regular expression to match
the following pattern

#1: <!-- someword -->
#2: <!-- someword_end -->

I need a regular expression that will match #1 but not #2. Any one got
any ideas?

Jeremy Shovan

On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 03:29:37 -0700, Jeremy Shovan
<jeremys013@foundationx.com> wrote:

>#1: <!-- someword -->
>#2: <!-- someword_end -->
>
>I need a regular expression that will match #1 but not #2. Any one got
>any ideas?

$test1 = "<!-- someword -->";
$test2 = "<!-- someword_end -->";
$pattern = "/<!-- someword -->/";
echo "test1: " . preg_match($pattern, $test1) . "<br>";
echo "test2: " . preg_match($pattern, $test2) . "<br>";

Regards

Marian

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On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 03:29:37 -0700, Jeremy Shovan
<jeremys013@foundationx.com> wrote:

>#1: <!-- someword -->
>#2: <!-- someword_end -->
>
>I need a regular expression that will match #1 but not #2. Any one got
>any ideas?

if you want to find out what "someword" really is:

$test1 = "<!-- someword -->";
$test2 = "<!-- someword_end -->";
$pattern = "/<!-- ([^_]*) -->/";
echo "test1: " . preg_match($pattern, $test1, $ary) . "<br>";
print_r($ary);
echo "test2: " . preg_match($pattern, $test2, $ary) . "<br>";

Regards

Marian

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Marian Heddesheimer wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 03:29:37 -0700, Jeremy Shovan
> <jeremys013@foundationx.com> wrote:
>
>
>>#1: <!-- someword -->
>>#2: <!-- someword_end -->
>>
>>I need a regular expression that will match #1 but not #2. Any one got
>>any ideas?
>
>
> if you want to find out what "someword" really is:
>
> $test1 = "<!-- someword -->";
> $test2 = "<!-- someword_end -->";
> $pattern = "/<!-- ([^_]*) -->/";
> echo "test1: " . preg_match($pattern, $test1, $ary) . "<br>";
> print_r($ary);
> echo "test2: " . preg_match($pattern, $test2, $ary) . "<br>";
>
> Regards
>
> Marian
>

Go figure I can work on this for 3 hours and then as soon as I ask for
help I figure it out. Here is the finished product:

return
preg_replace_callback("/(<\s*\/td\s*>\s*)?(<\s*\/tr\s*>\s*)?(<\s*\/table\s*>\s*)?(<!--\s*.*\s*\/\/\s*--\s*\>\s*)(<\s*table(.*?)>\s*)?(<\s*tr(.*?)>\s*)?(< \s*td(.*?)>\s*)?/","checkForEnd",$sting);

function checkForEnd($string){
if(strstr($string[4],"_end")){
return
"</td></tr></table>\n".$string[4].$string[5].$string[7].$string[9];
}else{
return
$string[1].$string[2].$string[3].$string[4]."<table".$string[6]."><tr".$string[8]."><td".$string[10].">";
}
}

Jeremy Shovan