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[nycphp-talk] regexp: feeling better

Marc Antony Vose suzerain at suzerain.com
Wed Mar 17 17:00:11 EST 2004


OK, I have figured out that my problem is a difference in 
configuration with regard to adding slashes.  Silly.

Long day,

Marc





At 3:49 PM -0500 3/17/04, Marc Antony Vose wrote:
>Now I have to steer this in a different direction.
>
>The change in pattern works fine on my PowerBook (I have virtual 
>domains set up on my account, so it behaves through the browser just 
>as it would live).
>
>However, it doesn't work on the remote machine...the change doesn't 
>happen.  The remote server is a Linux shared server environment 
>which I am familiar with, and normally I don't have these kinds of 
>gotchas (I have like 9 domains hosted there).
>
>Does anyone have any insight as to what could be the difference 
>between my local setup and the remote one, with respect to the 
>preg_replace_callback() function?
>
>Both machines are above 4.3, so the function certainly ought to be 
>available, and would be throwing an error if it weren't.
>
>?? confused.
>
>Marc
>
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>At 3:16 PM -0500 3/17/04, David Sklar wrote:
>>>many thanks.  i was trying in my head to create a match for the 
>>>beginning of the tag, then anything that is not "</sup>", and then 
>>></sup>.
>>>
>>>many times, like now, i find that my strategy is wrong with 
>>>pattern matching.
>>
>>Thinking like a regex would is a weird way to think that requires a 
>>lot of adjustment from normal human thought.
>>
>>The adjustment, IMHO, is complicated when you want to express a 
>>negation in your pattern (like "anything that is not '</sup>') 
>>because the ways to do that in regex land are tucked into twisty, 
>>punctuation-riddled back alleys.
>>
>>"Mastering Regular Expressions" by Jeffrey Friedl 
>>(http://regex.info) is  the place to start if you want to climb the 
>>regex mountain, though.
>>
>>David
>>
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