Help in regex pls

[pdoria]

Hi guys

 

Since I'm not that good with regex I'm doing this quite the lame way ... 

 

<?php
$string="[0:1]={1967,1968}";

$regex="#([[](.*)[]]=)#e";

$output=preg_replace($regex, '', $string);
print ( $output . "<br/>" ); 

$search=array('{', '}');
$output=str_replace($search, "", $output);

print ( $output ); 
?>

 

How can I do this in one pass using regex only?

 

Thx in advance!

[Psycho]

$regex = "#(\[[^\]]*\]=)|{|}#e";
$output = preg_replace($regex, '', $string);

[pdoria]

Thx Psycho!

 

and sorry to have posted in the wrong forum earlier... 

[ragax]

While fully in synch with Psycho about the method to match the content of the brackets, I'd like to offer a couple fine-tuning suggestions for the sake of "clean and compact":

- the "e" modifier has no place in this regex

- to match a single character out of a list, a character class is more efficient than alternations: [{}] rather than |{|}

- no need for the parentheses

$regex='#\[[^\]]*\]=|[{}]#';

Wishing you's a fun weekend.

 

 

[pdoria]

Thx ragax!

 

Yea ... lots of fun.. C++/Qt4, PHP, SQL ... ... .... two open IDE's (eclipse/kdevelop) ... 

 

Have a gr8 weekend too!

[ragax]

Wow, that sounds full on! Good luck with your project.