[SOLVED] Regexp help

[aQ]

Hello there!

 

I'm trying to get some regexp working, but I haven't done this before, so I need some help.

I have a text-document with a lot of links I want to get rid of. The syntax of the links are "http://www.yr.no/stad/Noreg/*SOMETHING*/*SOMETHING*/*SOMETHING*/varsel.xml". "*SOMETHING*" is different from link to link. The links does also contain Scandinavian letters like Æ Ø and Å (æ ø and å).

 

At the moment, I've got this, but it doesn't work:

$file = file_get_contents("viktigestader.txt");

$find = array("http:\/\/www.yr.no\/stad\/Noreg\/.+\/.+\/.+\/varsel.xml");
$replace = array("");
$done = preg_replace($find, $replace, $file);
print $done;

 

I hope you could help me out.

[aQ]

I finally fixed it using this line: #(http:\/\/www.yr.no\/stad\/Noreg\/[a-zA-Z0-9æøåÆØÅ]+\/[a-zA-Z0-9æøåÆØÅ]+\/[a-zA-Z0-9æøåÆØÅ]+\/varsel.xml)#

[effigy]

1. Since you've changed the delimiter there is no need to escape /.

2. If you want a literal period, escape it: \..

3. . should have worked because it matches everything except a new line.