Jerred121

I got it working though. I used strstr to parse the string a the line that I wanted and performed the preg_match on the parsed string. Less "elegant"than just one REGEX pattern, but it works.

problem is that i don't know how many lines to skip.

I want a pattern that will match every line after a particular line - the only constant that I can rely on is that if the header is there I know I want the follow lines. It doesn't matter if I end up getting more lines than I want because I'll only take the first however many I need. SURGICAL/MEDICAL HISTORY <--Header to indicate the beginning of my list HISTORY 1 <--line1 to be matched HISTORY 2 <--line2 to be matched HISTORY 3 <--line3 to be matched . . I'm not posting a real sample of the text because it shouldn't matter - the pattern must be flexible and for other particular reasons. I just always have such an issue with lines in regex. Here is what I have: $ptn = "/SURGICAL\/MEDICAL HISTORY\s*(^(.+)$)+/m"; I need all of the matched lines in separated in an array: Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => SURGICAL/MEDICAL HISTORY HISTORY 1 HISTORY 2 ) [1] => Array ( [0] => HISTORY 1 [1] => HISTORY 2 ) ) Thanks for any suggestions

Sorry, looks like I forgot to include a sample of the data: temp: 35.20c / 95.36f - axillary temp: 35.20c / 95.36f temp: 35.20c / 95.36f - oral As you can see the " - method" is optional.

You have a error in your query, insert or mysql_error() after your mysql_query(..) to find out what's going on. Plus this is the wrong forum for this question - this is specifically for Regular Expressions.

So just when I think i'm getting the hang of REGEX, I realize that I suck still and I can't get this simple extraction to work... I want to extract the temp and the method separately: Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => temp: 35.20c / 95.36f - axillary [1] => temp: 35.20c / 95.36f [2] => temp: 35.20c / 95.36f - oral ) [1] => Array ( [0] => 35.20c / 95.36f [1] => 35.20c / 95.36f [2] => 35.20c / 95.36f ) [2] => Array ( [0] => axillary [1] => [2] => oral ) I'm even embarrassed to post my sorry pattern, but I'm sure you guys can figure it out. As always, thank you!

First you need to escape your slashes ie: </b> should be <\/b>, i'm not sure but it probably wouldn't hurt to escape your <>'s also

I'm not nearly as good with REGEX as some of the REGEX ninjas on here, but this worked for me when trying to remove the semicolon lines: $ptn = "/[^;](?:.*)\n/"; preg_match_all($ptn, $str, $match); foreach($match[0] as $key => $value){ echo "$value <br />"; // do whatever you want with the lines that don't start with ; }

Your good and that was quick! thank you so much, the people on this forum are awesome!

need an example of the text file.

Here is the code with the subject ($str) and the pattern that I started with - I've tried a lot of variations but I can't get it grab all of the variables that I need, so I figured I'd post what I started with: $str = " Intervention: Airway-Intubation of Existing Tracheostomy Stoma successful Intervention: CPR-Start Compressions only without Ventilation Intervention: CPR-Start Compressions only without Ventilation - 12:30 AM successful Intervention: Activation-Fire Rehabilitation Specialty Service/Response Team not successful Intervention: Blood Glucose Analysis - 2:30 PM not successful Intervention: Venous Access-Femoral Line successful"; $ptn = "/Intervention: *(.+) *-+? *(([0-2]*[0-9]+:[0-5]+[0-9] *(??:A|P)M)))* *((?:not )?successful)*/"; preg_match_all($ptn, $str, $CZprocedures); echo"<pre>"; print_r($CZprocedures); echo"</pre"; Here is the output from above: Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => Intervention: Airway- [1] => Intervention: CPR- [2] => Intervention: CPR-Start Compressions only without Ventilation - 12:30 AM successful [3] => Intervention: Activation- [4] => Intervention: Blood Glucose Analysis - 2:30 PM not successful [5] => Intervention: Venous Access- ) [1] => Array ( [0] => Airway [1] => CPR [2] => CPR-Start Compressions only without Ventilation [3] => Activation [4] => Blood Glucose Analysis [5] => Venous Access ) [2] => Array ( [0] => [1] => [2] => 12:30 AM [3] => [4] => 2:30 PM [5] => ) [3] => Array ( [0] => [1] => [2] => 12:30 AM [3] => [4] => 2:30 PM [5] => ) [4] => Array ( [0] => [1] => [2] => successful [3] => [4] => not successful [5] => ) ) I need it to grab the name of the procedure (CPR-Start Compressions only without Ventilation, Blood Glucose Analysis, etc) then the time if there is one and then the result part at the end (((?:not )?successful)) if there is one. Few notes: The only thing I can count on being there is the name The hyphens in names was screwing me up (ie: Airway-Intubation of Existing Tracheostomy Stoma would end up being: Airway) Thanks for any help - it is greatly appreciated!

Perfect! I think you have it all covered it all... +1,000,000

You know what, screw the potential hyphens this is pretty damn good enough, if you don't mind accounting for potential hyphens then I would surely use the pattern, but you have already done so much. Seriously, thank you so much, you have have been a massive help. You should have a donate button in your sig, lol.

Also names may have hyphens (-) or other symbols, this just keeps getting harder!

That shouldn't happen, if it wouldn't be much trouble to incorporate that just to be on the safe side, sure, but I doubt the script would ever see that so it's not a big deal.