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Regular Expression Help [message #179335]

Mon, 08 October 2012 04:20

Scott Johnson
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Registered: January 2012

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I have two possible values I need to match as the same.

Name/11 (This one is pulled from the source DB)
Name/11* (This is what I need to match to with or without the (*))

The pattern base name is pulled from a DB so I need to find a way to do
this pragmatically.

Now some of the names have a forward slash / so I am using hash mark #
as a delimiter.

I was able to find the "Name/11" using

#^Name/11#

or more specifically;

$value = "Name/11";
$pattern = "#^" . $value . "#";

But as for the (*), no glory.
I originally tried

#^Name/11?*#
#^Name/11\*#
#^Name/11.*#

It must be obvious I am having issues finding a way to escape the (*)
and am not very versed with regex.

Can someone please explain the best way to escape an optional (*) from a
string. Or even point me to a good source.

I used http://www.regular-expressions.info/tutorial.html but was unable
to find how to handle the star.

And if you bing up the *, it sort of gets ignored.

Thanks

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		Regular Expression Help By: Scott Johnson on Mon, 08 October 2012 04:20
		Re: Regular Expression Help By: Captain Paralytic on Mon, 08 October 2012 10:03
		Re: Regular Expression Help By: Denis McMahon on Mon, 08 October 2012 12:49
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		Re: Regular Expression Help By: BootNic on Mon, 08 October 2012 17:39
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		Re: Regular Expression Help By: Scott Johnson on Wed, 10 October 2012 10:38

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