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[nutballs]

Normally I am the goddam regex genious, but for some reason this is giving me a headache. I am trying to match content that has a long date like january 1st, 2007.

Code:

$regstr='#(?:January|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December)\W+\d{1,2}.{1,4}\d{2,4}#is';
if (preg_match($regstr,$s) != 0) echo 'date';

pass it this and it matches:
Posted Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 at 11:44 am Filed Under Category: awesome dude!

Pass it this and it doesnt:
morgan 13 November 20th, 2007 4 at 7 4:16 pm 5 2a 3c Ahh… so your phone DOES support MP3

[dimitry12]

Code:

if("morgan 13 November 20th, 2007 4 at 7 4:16 pm 5 2a 3c Ahh. so your phone DOES support MP3" =~ m/(?:January|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December)\W+\d{1,2}.{1,4}\d{2,4}/is){
    print "pass!\n";
}else{
    print "no!\n";
}'

prints "pass!"

[nutballs]

err... what the fuck is that magic syntax you're using?

hmm. it passes? I wonder if those spaces are actually spaces. Obviously when I copy paste them into the forum they probably get converted somewhere along the lines. I gotta check that out.

thanks for testing it.

[perkiset]

Cripes Dim, I can't find that syntax anywhere - is that "=~" equal to a regex? I'm not at my machine so I cant test...

Feckin' learn something every day...

short outline please:

[dimitry12]

it's perl, sorry

[chide]

Yummy perl