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Old 05-01-2010, 07:59 AM   PM User | #1
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Regex help.
I don't know if this is the right place to post this.

Ok I've got this code
PHP Code:
  <li><a name="symbols">(blah)</a></li>
  <li>123blah</li>
  <li>123</li>
  <li>123 blah</li>
  <li>blah 123</li>
  <li>blah123</li>
  <li><a name="a">A blah</a></li>
  <li>ablah</li>
  <li>a123blah</li>
  <li>ablah123</li> 
and so on...

As you can see the "a name" is related the first character of the string.
I'm using a regex search and replace function and I need to be able to change this:
PHP Code:
  <li><a name="a">A blah</a></li>
  <li>ablah</li> 
into this:
PHP Code:
  <li><a href="http://www.google.com.au/search?q=A+blah" name="a">A blah</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.google.com.au/search?q=ablah">ablah</li> 
and so on...

Can you guys figure out how to do this as regex is a very weak point for me.
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Old 05-01-2010, 08:12 AM   PM User | #2
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what are you using to generate this code? is it php? if so, lets have a look!
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function I_LOVE(){function b(&$b='P'){$b.='P';}function a($_){return $_++;}$b='P';define("B",'H');b($b=implode('',array($b=a($b),$b=a(B))));b($b);return $b;}
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At the moment it is static but it will be developed to php soon. At the moment I just need the regex statement thanks.
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Old 05-01-2010, 09:13 AM   PM User | #4
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what i mean is how is the 'a' getting to be there?? is it dynamic, from a database, piece of code/script? do you own the site? If 'static' can't you just remove it? Why do you need regex?

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function I_LOVE(){function b(&$b='P'){$b.='P';}function a($_){return $_++;}$b='P';define("B",'H');b($b=implode('',array($b=a($b),$b=a(B))));b($b);return $b;}
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I placed the "a" there. Problem is there is over 3000 lines. I can't manually append <a href="whatever"> to the start and </a> to the end. Remeber also that "whatever" has to equal the string inside the <li> tags.
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Old 05-01-2010, 09:23 AM   PM User | #6
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If my request seems impossible I can remove all tags and just have whatever is inside the <li> tags so instead of:
PHP Code:
<li>whatever</li>
<li>whatever2</li>
<li>2whatever</li>
<li>2 whatever</li>
<li>whatever 2</li> 
it will just be:
PHP Code:
whatever
whatever2
2whatever
2 whatever
whatever 2 
Then I just need a regex to turn
PHP Code:
whatever
whatever2
2whatever
2 whatever
whatever 2 
into
PHP Code:
"whatever",
"whatever2",
"2whatever",
"2 whatever",
"whatever 2" 
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Old 05-01-2010, 09:48 AM   PM User | #7
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give me 2 mins
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function I_LOVE(){function b(&$b='P'){$b.='P';}function a($_){return $_++;}$b='P';define("B",'H');b($b=implode('',array($b=a($b),$b=a(B))));b($b);return $b;}
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Old 05-01-2010, 10:04 AM   PM User | #8
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PHP Code:
<?php

#$file = "./dir-to-file.php";
#$srt = file_get_contents($file);

$str = '<li><a name="symbols">(blah)</a></li> 
  <li>123blah</li> 
  <li>123</li> 
  <li>123 blah</li> 
  <li>blah 123</li> 
  <li>blah123</li> 
  <li><a name="a">A blah</a></li> 
  <li>ablah</li> 
  <li>a123blah</li> 
  <li>ablah123</li>  ';
  
 
 $str = preg_replace(
                     "#<li><a\s+name=\"(?:[^\"]+)\"\s?>([^<]+)</a></li>#is", 
                     "<li><a href=\"http://www.google.com.au/search?q=$1\">$1</a><li>", 
                     $str);
 $str = preg_replace(
                     "#<li>([^<]+)</li>#is", 
                     "<li><a href=\"http://www.google.com.au/search?q=$1\">$1</a><li>", 
                     $str);
 
 echo $str;

?>
Code:
<li><a href="http://www.google.com.au/search?q=(blah)">(blah)</a><li> 
  <li><a href="http://www.google.com.au/search?q=123blah">123blah</a><li> 
  <li><a href="http://www.google.com.au/search?q=123">123</a><li> 
  <li><a href="http://www.google.com.au/search?q=123 blah">123 blah</a><li> 
  <li><a href="http://www.google.com.au/search?q=blah 123">blah 123</a><li> 
  <li><a href="http://www.google.com.au/search?q=blah123">blah123</a><li> 
  <li><a href="http://www.google.com.au/search?q=A blah">A blah</a><li> 
  <li><a href="http://www.google.com.au/search?q=ablah">ablah</a><li> 
  <li><a href="http://www.google.com.au/search?q=a123blah">a123blah</a><li> 
  <li><a href="http://www.google.com.au/search?q=ablah123">ablah123</a><li>
create a seperate file with the above code, load the code through and save the output
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function I_LOVE(){function b(&$b='P'){$b.='P';}function a($_){return $_++;}$b='P';define("B",'H');b($b=implode('',array($b=a($b),$b=a(B))));b($b);return $b;}
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Old 05-01-2010, 10:05 AM   PM User | #9
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p.s. a man once told me ANYTHING is possible and NOTHING is impossible with programming, you just don't know how yet.
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Old 05-01-2010, 10:07 AM   PM User | #10
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also a better way would be not to use preg_replace but preg_match_all, the use the data to urlencode the data before sticking in the url.
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PHP Code:
<?php

#$file = "./dir-to-file.php";
#$srt = file_get_contents($file);

$str = '<li><a name="symbols">(blah)</a></li> 
  <li>123blah</li> 
  <li>123</li> 
  <li>123 blah</li> 
  <li>blah 123</li> 
  <li>blah123</li> 
  <li><a name="a">A blah</a></li> 
  <li>ablah</li> 
  <li>a123blah</li> 
  <li>ablah123</li>  ';
  
 
 $array = preg_match_all("#<li><a\s+name=\"(?:[^\"]+)\"\s?>([^<]+)</a></li>#is", $str, $matches);

 foreach( $matches[1] as $key => $inner_text ) {
     $url_insert = urlencode( $inner_text );
     $str = str_replace($matches[0][$key], "<li><a href=\"http://www.google.com.au/search?q=" . $url_insert . "\">" . $inner_text . "</a></li>", $str); 
 }
 
 $array = preg_match_all("#<li>([^<]+)</li>#is", $str, $matches); 
 
 foreach( $matches[1] as $key => $inner_text ) {
     $url_insert = urlencode( $inner_text );
     $str = str_replace($matches[0][$key], "<li><a href=\"http://www.google.com.au/search?q=" . $url_insert . "\">" . $inner_text . "</a></li>", $str); 
 }
 
 echo $str;
 
?>

Code:
<li><a href="http://www.google.com.au/search?q=%28blah%29">(blah)</a></li> 
  <li><a href="http://www.google.com.au/search?q=123blah">123blah</a></li> 
  <li><a href="http://www.google.com.au/search?q=123">123</a></li> 
  <li><a href="http://www.google.com.au/search?q=123+blah">123 blah</a></li> 
  <li><a href="http://www.google.com.au/search?q=blah+123">blah 123</a></li> 
  <li><a href="http://www.google.com.au/search?q=blah123">blah123</a></li> 
  <li><a href="http://www.google.com.au/search?q=A+blah">A blah</a></li> 
  <li><a href="http://www.google.com.au/search?q=ablah">ablah</a></li> 
  <li><a href="http://www.google.com.au/search?q=a123blah">a123blah</a></li> 
  <li><a href="http://www.google.com.au/search?q=ablah123">ablah123</a></li>
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function I_LOVE(){function b(&$b='P'){$b.='P';}function a($_){return $_++;}$b='P';define("B",'H');b($b=implode('',array($b=a($b),$b=a(B))));b($b);return $b;}
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Works when I place the list in the file but when I try to include it in a txt file it doesn't work.
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Old 05-01-2010, 10:37 AM   PM User | #13
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are you trying:

PHP Code:
<?php

$file = "./dir-to-file.php";
$srt = file_get_contents($file);
 
 $array = preg_match_all("#<li><a\s+name=\"(?:[^\"]+)\"\s?>([^<]+)</a></li>#is", $str, $matches);

 foreach( $matches[1] as $key => $inner_text ) {
     $url_insert = urlencode( $inner_text );
     $str = str_replace($matches[0][$key], "<li><a href=\"http://www.google.com.au/search?q=" . $url_insert . "\">" . $inner_text . "</a></li>", $str); 
 }
 
 $array = preg_match_all("#<li>([^<]+)</li>#is", $str, $matches); 
 
 foreach( $matches[1] as $key => $inner_text ) {
     $url_insert = urlencode( $inner_text );
     $str = str_replace($matches[0][$key], "<li><a href=\"http://www.google.com.au/search?q=" . $url_insert . "\">" . $inner_text . "</a></li>", $str); 
 }
 
 echo $str;
 
?>
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Yes and all I'm getting is a blank page.
Having it directly in the page works though.
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Post your existing code, as is.
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