Destramic Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 hey guys ive been using this regual expression for my configuration files to get the variable and value ie. db_username = blah db_password = blah but im in need of some help on the regular expression so that the value can be any character instead of just A-Za-z0-9_.:\/ this is what im using at the moment '/([A-Za-z0-9_]+) += +([A-Za-z0-9_.:\/]+)/' ive tried altering it to '/([A-Za-z0-9_]+) += +(.*)/' but doesnt seem to work at all any help would be truly greatful...thank you guys Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/291993-expression-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution requinix Posted October 22, 2014 Solution Share Posted October 22, 2014 Is that INI file syntax? How about using something that already exists? .* would be right. How is it not working? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/291993-expression-help/#findComment-1494420 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destramic Posted October 23, 2014 Author Share Posted October 23, 2014 just what i needed...saved me a lot of time and effort...thank you Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/291993-expression-help/#findComment-1494506 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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