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@NogDogMay 04.2006 — #Don't know if this would do the job for you:
Need regex help
I am trying to write a regex which will recognize a block of text as being composed of plain text and HTML Comments. The regex I have so far is as follows:
[code=php]$pattern = “/(?P<text>.*?)(<!–(?P<comment>.*?)–>)?/sm”;
What I want is to get the first chunk of text into the back-reference <text> and get the text of the comment into the back-reference <comment>. I made <text> lazy, because it tries to take the comment also otherwise, and I made <comment> optional because it will not always be there. The problem, is that will this combination, it now captures nothing.
I cannot figure this out. Can anyone help?
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@NogDogMay 04.2006 — #Don't know if this would do the job for you:[code=php]
<?php
header("Content-type: text/plain");
$text = <<<EOD
This is a test. <!-- This is a comment -->
This is only a test. <!-- This is another comment -->
<!-- This is a comment on its own line -->
This has been a test.
The end.
EOD;
preg_match_all('/<!--s*(.+)s*-->/U', $text, $matches);
$nonComment = preg_replace('/<!--s*(.+)s*-->/U', "t", $text);
$data['text'] = explode("t", $nonComment);
foreach($data['text'] as $key => $val)
{
$data['text'][$key] = trim($val);
}
$data['comment'] = $matches[1];
print_r($data);
?>
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