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Subject:    Re: [PHP-DB] How can I solve this?
From:       "Julien Bonastre" <julien () the-spectrum ! org>
Date:       2006-01-20 0:15:58
Message-ID: 002001c61d56$b0a823c0$0101a8c0 () ORACLE
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Thank you,


In fact, its called busy-ness, and I tend to believe I have quite a 
prowess in the was of Regular Expressions.


Reason I have the character class? You betchya! So I could do exactly 
what your friend did.


Reason I completely forgot? I'm an idiot and was too busy replying to 3 
emails at once whilst on a phone call.

My fault? Completely ;-)



Yes, see its called impulsive reasoning, hence the reason I added the 
character class without needing it, embedding a character class 
predicate such as \w inside a character class enclosure alone is well.. 
Stupid and reduntant at best..

Therefore there was some sub-concious reasoning to my madness I can 
presume. And yes, I also know that that \w class wouldn't cover all the 
characters I needed in a possible filename, again, I was careless and 
quick


As for the compatibility of the \w character class within sed and awk:

I am well aware that this implementation works on Perl-Compatible 
Regular Expression patterns, and is not a necessarily supported by all 
regular expression standards

BUT WHO GIVES A FLYING FUCK?


But this is a PHP-DB list, he is asking a PHP related question and I 
even specifically stated in my response:

preg_replace() which is a PCRE function using the PCRE pattern 
modifiers.



And finally this is a mailing list, not a kindergarten room. We're here 
to help, assist, and suggest advice. Not to wipe their bottoms.


I posted a suggestive solution to a problem. Thats all

SURE theres going to be different methods of approaching it, SURE it 
could not be the most perfect pattern, but its a suggestion where to 
head for the correct solution. HELL it wouldn't work with .asp files 
either. Or if your files were named .php4 or .phtml

Do I give a damn about that?

No. Are you a tech support officer Jeremy? Do you need to help them 
digest their baby jelly food?


Actually, enough of the hostility, I am honoured actually to think you 
went to the effort of sending off my 10 second quick drafted suggestive 
PCRE pattern off to Eric Pement of MBI..


Wow, touched. Imagine if I gave you guys some REAL PCRE patterns that I 
use!!!

Now that you'd honour me for wouldn't you! I can just picture you two 
drooling at the mouth now.



So is this Eric friend of yours some RegEx guru? I respect him if so, no 
harm intended, but I do think my suggestive help posting to this list 
was 'fit for purpose'

He never asked anyone to spoon feed him, and if you want to be a real 
world developer you better learn to use your resources and reference 
manuals.


I've had enough now.



Adios and cya later mate!


P.S. You (Jeremy) and Eric are Americans right?? :-) Just curious.





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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeremy Peterson" <jeremy.peterson@moody.edu>
To: <php-db@lists.php.net>
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 8:09 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] How can I solve this?


>A friend of mine updated your regular expression...  Check it out if 
>your
> interested.
>
> Jeremy
>
>
>
>>Dear Jeremy,
>>
>>Thanks for writing!
>>
>> > I saw this regular expression and thought you might like it... :)
>>
>> > >preg_replace("/^\/?(.*)\/[\w]+\.php$/","$1",$PHP_SELF)
>> > >
>> > >that strips that leading forward slash too ;-)
>>
>>   \w is a PCRE (Perl-Compatible Regular Expression) that matches any
>>word character: a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and the underscore "_". sed and awk do
>>not support \w, although ssed (super-sed) supports \w if an -R switch
>>is added on the command line.
>>
>>    Back to PHP and \w : Putting \w by itself inside a character class
>>"[...]" does absolutely nothing, just as "[a]" and "[9]" does nothing
>>special. It could be more efficiently written as:
>>
>>         /^\/?(.*)\/\w+\.php$/
>>
>>    One additional problem is that the characters defined by \w does
>>not include the hyphen, the pound sign, or other punctuation marks
>>that sometimes find their way into filenames, like:
>>
>>         four-to-go.php
>>         page#10.php
>>         convert$toDM.php
>>
>>so in this case, a character set should be used:
>>
>>         /^\/?(.*)\/[\w~!@#$%^&*+=-]+\.php$/
>>
>>Keep 'em coming!
>>
>>--
>>Eric Pement - eric.pement@moody.edu
>>Educational Technical Services, MBI
>
>
>
> Jeremy Peterson, MACS
> Automation Systems Administrator
> Crowell Library
> Moody Bible Institute
> 820 N. LaSalle Drive
> Chicago, IL, 60610
>
> Email:          jpeterso@moody.edu
> Phone:  312.329.8081
> Fax:            312.329.8959
>


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