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Re: Regular Expression Help [message #179348 is a reply to message #179335]

Wed, 10 October 2012 10:38

Scott Johnson
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Registered: January 2012

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On 10/7/2012 9:20 PM, Scott Johnson wrote:
> I have two possible values I need to match as the same.
>
> Name/11 (This one is pulled from the source DB)
> Name/11* (This is what I need to match to with or without the (*))
>
> The pattern base name is pulled from a DB so I need to find a way to do
> this pragmatically.
>
> Now some of the names have a forward slash / so I am using hash mark #
> as a delimiter.
>
> I was able to find the "Name/11" using
>
> #^Name/11#
>
> or more specifically;
>
> $value = "Name/11";
> $pattern = "#^" . $value . "#";
>
> But as for the (*), no glory.
> I originally tried
>
> #^Name/11?*#
> #^Name/11\*#
> #^Name/11.*#
>
> It must be obvious I am having issues finding a way to escape the (*)
> and am not very versed with regex.
>
> Can someone please explain the best way to escape an optional (*) from a
> string. Or even point me to a good source.
>
> I used http://www.regular-expressions.info/tutorial.html but was unable
> to find how to handle the star.
>
> And if you bing up the *, it sort of gets ignored.
>
> Thanks
>
>
Thank you to everyone for taking the time and providing input.

It was both a combination of using the proper pattern and the
peculiarities with PHP and making it not munge my pattern.

Again thanks, you pulled me thru.

Scotty

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