any number except 7[0-9]{4}

[michaellunsford]

I'm wanting to capture [0-9]{0,6} but [b]exclude[/b] the zip code (7[0-9]{4}) from the result.

example 1 "78876 555 easy street" should return "555"
example 2 "1095012 LBJ Highway, 71231" should return "1095012"
example 3 "7000 East Main Street" should return "7000"

Just can't figure it out.

[effigy]

See if this works for the rest of your dataset. I changed the max to 7 since you said "1095012" should match--it is 7 numbers, not 6.

[code]
<pre>
<?php
$tests = array(
"78876 555 easy street", ### should return "555"
"1095012 LBJ Highway, 71231", ### should return "1095012"
"7000 East Main Street" ### should return "7000"
);
foreach ($tests as $test) {
preg_match('/\b(?!7\d{4})\d{1,7}\b/', $test, $matches);
print_r($matches);
}
?>
</pre>

[/code]

[michaellunsford]

[quote author=effigy link=topic=122751.msg506671#msg506671 date=1169011514]I changed the max to 7 since you said "1095012" should match--it is 7 numbers, not 6.
[/quote]

odd, my PHP reads it like this [1]{6}=7

Great it works! Now, what's the difference between [0-9] and \d? preference, or is it more than that?

[effigy]

[tt]\d [/tt]is a shortcut for[tt] [0-9][/tt]; I don't think it is affected by locales, like[tt] \w[/tt].