preg_magic (banner, regular expression)

Name:	preg_magic Support forum
Base name:	`preg_magic`
Description:	Extract data from text using regular expressions
Related top rated classes:	banner, regular expression
Version:	`1`
Required PHP version:	`5`
License:	GNU General Public License (GPL)
All time users:	982 users
All time rank:	2520
Week users:	2 users
Week rank:	2509

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Author

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Age:	28
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Week rank:	106

Innovation Award

February 2008
Number 7

Regular expressions are often used to extract information from different types of text documents.

Sometimes it is necessary to extract information that appears with the same format in multiple sections of a document, like for instance, text that is presented in multiple rows of HTML table. Extracting data from this kind document may require the use of multiple types of regular expressions.

This class provides a solution to simplify the extraction of text from document with repetitive sections by iterating through a set of given regular expressions.

Manuel Lemos

Groups

	PHP 5	Classes using PHP 5 specific features	View top rated classes
	Text processing	Manipulating and validating text data	View top rated classes

Detailed description

This class can be used to extract data from text using regular expression patterns.

It takes an array of regular expressions that define the patterns to match and extract data.

An entry of the expressions array may be another array that defines patterns of repetitive sections that must be iterated to extract data from each of the repeated sections, like for instance HTML tables with sections of the rows of cell data.

The extracted data patterns is returned in associative arrays.

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Files

File	Role	Description
`doc`
`blank.html`	Doc.	Documentation
`classtrees_preg_magic.html`	Doc.	Documentation
`elementindex.html`	Doc.	Documentation
`elementindex_preg_magic.html`	Doc.	Documentation
`index.html`	Doc.	Main Documentation Index
`li_preg_magic.html`	Doc.	Documentation
`doc/media`
`banner.css`	Data	CSS for Documentation
`stylesheet.css`	Data	CSS for Documentation
`doc`
`packages.html`	Doc.	Documentation
`doc/preg_magic`
`preg_magic.html`	Doc.	Documentation
`_preg_magic.php.html`	Doc.	Documentation
`document.sh`	Data	Documentation Generator
`example`
`fields_example.php`	Example	An example fields layout
`full_example.php`	Example	A complete example
`history.html`	Data	Example data
`preg_magic.php`	Class	Main class/function file
`README`	Doc.	Readme file

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