[development] preg_match bug or regex help needed?

[Olivier Jacquet]

Well, the first thing that I spot is that the resulting regex wil have 
two "+" at the end:

/(\s*([a-z][a-z0-9\-]*)\s*:\s*([a-z][a-z0-9\-]*)\s*;)++/i

Could that be it?


Doug Green wrote:
> I'm pretty good with regex, but I'm beating my head against the wall
> with this one, and wondering if there's a bug in php.
> 
> Any help is much appreciated.  (This is for nicedit.)
> 
> <?php
>   $text = 'style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"';
>   $regex = "(\s*([a-z][a-z0-9\-]*)\s*:\s*([a-z][a-z0-9\-]*)\s*;)+";
>   if (preg_match('/'. $regex .'+/i', $text, $matches)) {
>     print_r($matches);
>   }
> ?>
> 
> If the regex is confusing, just think of it simply as ((\w+):(\w+);)+
> ... with extra spaces and a definition for words that includes dashes.
> 
> The regex vars $1 and $2 seem to only put the last matching value in the
> matches array.
> 
> Array
> (
>     [0] => font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;
>     [1] =>  font-weight: bold;
>     [2] => font-weight
>     [3] => bold
> )
> 
> I was hoping that it would also write font-style: italic into the matches.
> 
> Thanks,
> Doug Green
> 
> 
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