PHP正则表达式75794.pdfVIP

Regular expression • The magic behind text Speaker • Kore Nordmann • Working as a Software Developer for eZ systems • P AR maintainer / developer • Software projects • Image_3D • eZ components Content • What are regular expressions? • Standards • Basic search patterns • Usage in PHP • xtended search patterns • xamples 1) What are regular expressions 1.1) Theory • A regular expression describes a language • A language is a amount of words • A word consist of any characters 1.2) Usage of regular expressions • A typical question: • Is foo@bar.de an email address? • Regular expression are often used to verify if a word is member of a desired language • Regular expressions are rarely used to describe a language 2) Standards 2.1) POS X • Regular expressions following the POSIX standard 1003.2 • Available in PHP by the ereg* functions • Deprecated: • Slow • Outdated • Not binary safe 2.2) PCRE • Perl Compatible Regular xpressions • Available in PHP by the preg_* functions • Faster and more powerful regular expressions 2.3) Theoretical background • A subgroup of the patterns used in POSIX and PCR • Simple conversion to and from Final State Machines - Regular languages (Chomsky Type 3) • very POSIX compatible regular expression can be converted • PCR regular expressions can not be converted 3) Basic patterns 3.1) The first regular expression (1) • . Any character • ? One or none occurrence of subpattern • + At minimum one occurrence of subpattern • * Any count of occurrences of subpattern 3.1) The first regular expression (2) • /pattern/modifier • For the delimiter each character is allowed except • Alpha