So I've seen a couple articles that go a little too deep, so I'm not sure what to remove from the regex statements they make.
I've basically got this
foo:bar all the way to anotherfoo:bar;seg98y34g.?sdebvw h segvu (anything goes really)
I need a PHP regex to remove EVERYTHING after the colon. the first part can be any length (but it never contains a colon. so in both cases above I'd end up with
foo and anotherfoo
after doing something like this horrendous example of psuedo-code
$string = 'foo:bar';
$newstring = regex_to_remove_everything_after_":"($string);
EDIT
after posting this, would an explode()
work reliably enough? Something like
$pieces = explode(':', 'foo:bar')
$newstring = $pieces[0];
explode
would do what you're asking for, but you can make it one step by using current
.
$beforeColon = current(explode(':', $string));
I would not use a regex here (that involves some work behind the scenes for a relatively simple action), nor would I use strpos
with substr
(as that would, effectively, be traversing the string twice). Most importantly, this provides the person who reads the code with an immediate, "Ah, yes, that is what the author is trying to do!" instead of, "Wait, what is happening again?"
The only exception to that is if you happen to know that the string is excessively long: I would not explode
a 1 Gb file. Instead:
$beforeColon = substr($string, 0, strpos($string,':'));
I also feel substr
isn't quite as easy to read: in current(explode
you can see the delimiter immediately with no extra function calls and there is only one incident of the variable (which makes it less prone to human errors). Basically I read current(explode
as "I am taking the first incident of anything prior to this string" as opposed to substr
, which is "I am getting a substring starting at the 0 position and continuing until this string."
Your explode
solution does the trick. If you really want to use regexes for some reason, you could simply do this:
$newstring = preg_replace("/(.*?):(.*)/", "$1", $string);
比其他示例更简洁:
current(explode(':', $string));
您可以使用m.buettner编写的RegEx,但他的示例将返回':'之前的所有内容,如果您希望':'之后的所有内容,只需使用$ 2而不是$ 1:
$newstring = preg_replace("/(.*?):(.*)/", "$2", $string);
You could use something like the following. demo: http://codepad.org/bUXKN4el
<?php
$s = 'anotherfoo:bar;seg98y34g.?sdebvw h segvu';
$result = array_shift(explode(':', $s));
echo $result;
?>
为什么要使用正则表达式?
list($beforeColon) = explode(':', $string);
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