Need help with a regular expression

[ksoong]

I have a string that I read in from a text file in the format of:

string1|string2|string3|string4|...

where '|' is the delimiting character. i need to come up with a regular expression that will allow me to parse these strings with ereg to put into an array.

so far I have something like

ereg("(^.|.*)|(^.|.*)|(^.|.*)", $BUFFER, $temparray);

But this must be wrong can someone help me?

thanks.

 

[ksoong]

I failed to mention in my post that the strings could contain any sequence of characters including &*^%$#@!~` etc. etc.

I can't figure out the correct regular expression which takes

blah, blah, blah!|

http://www.blah.com?balh=blah&blah2=blah blah

and parsing it using ereg so that the strings in the array turn out to be

blah, blah, blah!

and

http://www.blah.com?balh=blah&blah2=blah blah

thanks in advance

 

[hmerrill]

I'm not that familiar with "ereg", but if all you want to do is split up a line into tokens based on a delimiter, then look at "split", "explode", "strtok" - here's how you could use split:

$a = "xxx|yyy|zzz";
$token_array = split("|", $a);

And if you want to get everything before http in

blah, blah, blah!|

http://www.blah.com?balh=blah&;blah2=blah blah

then you could use something like this:

$a = "blah, blah, blah!|

http://www.blah.com?balh=blah&;blah2=blah blah";

list($before_http, $rest_of_line) = split("http", $a);

but of course $rest_of_line would *NOT* contain "http" since we used that as the delimiter.

Not exactly sure what you're looking for, but maybe this will point you in the right direction.
Hardy Merrill
Mission Critical Linux, Inc.

http://www.missioncriticallinux.com