Re: Convert literature string via Regular Expressions

Hey,

I Found it out at the end! Thanks anyway.

Here the code to find out for someone that is interested:

<?php
$filename="Literature.txt";
$handle = fopen ($filename, "r");
while (!feof ($handle)) {
$buffer = fgets($handle, 1024);
echo ("<hr><p>".$buffer."<>");
//.....................Author.................Year.................Title DE or EN.............EN Title..............................Source.....issue...........pages......Press
$match=preg_match ("/^([\wÜÖäüßéñóíá,.-\s]*)\(([\d]{4})\)*:\s([\)\(ÜÖäüßéñóíá,.:&?!-\w\s]*)\[([\)\(ÜÖäüßéñóíá,.:&?!-é\w\s]*)\]\s-\s([\s\w]*)\s([\(\/\)\d]*),\s([\d-]*).\s([\w]*)/", $buffer, $regs);
if ($match){
echo ("<p>Matched till now in: $line <br>------------------------> <i>".$regs[0]."</i>");
echo ("<table border=\"2\"><tr><td>Author:</td><td><i>".$regs[1]."</i></td></tr>");
echo ("<tr><td>Year:</td><td><i>".$regs[2]."</i></td></tr>");
echo ("<tr><td>Title EN or DE:</td><td><i>".$regs[3]."</i></td></tr>");
echo ("<tr><td>Title EN:</td><td><i>".$regs[4]."</i></td></tr>");
echo ("<tr><td>Source:</td><td><i>".$regs[5]."</i></td></tr>");
echo ("<tr><td>Issue:</td><td><i>".$regs[6]."</i></td></tr>");
echo ("<tr><td>Pages:</td><td><i>".$regs[7]."</i></td></tr>");
echo ("<tr><td>Press City:</td><td><i>".$regs[8]."</i></td></tr></table>");
}
else{
echo "<div style=\"color:red\">String did not match!</div></p>";
}
}
fclose ($handle);
?>

Cool he! ;-) I'm starting to like regular expressions. So now I can
happily import 1000 new rows without any problem.

bye,
Bastiaan

On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 16:50, Bastiaan Wakkie wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm having difficulties getting the following literature strings
> ripped to prepare it to be inserted into the database.
>
> Here 2 example strings:
>
>
>
> Hauser, M., Geller-Grimm, F. (1995): Bestimmungsschlüssel für die Weibchen der deutschen Sphegina-Arten (Diptera, Syrphidae). [Key to distinguish the females of the Sphegina species known from Germany (Diptera, Syrphidae).] - Entomology 2(1/2), 3-19. London.
> Mazánek, L., Láska, P., Bicik, V. (1999): Two new Palaearctic species of Eupeodes similar to E. bucculatus (Diptera, Syrphidae) [] - Volucella 4, 1-9. Stuttgart.
>
> Pattern is like this:
> Author(s) (year): Title in German or English. [If filled than former
> title was a German one and this one is the English translation.] -
> Source issue, pages. City.
>
> Author:
> Year:
> Title EN or DE:
> Title EN:
> Source:
> Issue:
> Pages:
> Press City:
>
> I tried something like this:
>
> preg_match ("/^[..something..]+/", $string, $regs);
>
> echo ("Author: ".$regs[1]."<br />");
> echo ("Year: ".$regs[2]."<br />");
> echo ("Title EN or DE: ".$regs[3]."<br />");
> echo ("Title EN: ".$regs[4]."<br />");
> echo ("Source: ".$regs[5]."<br />");
> echo ("Issue: ".$regs[6]."<br />");
> echo ("Pages: ".$regs[7]."<br />");
> echo ("Press City: ".$regs[8]."<br />");
>
> But I'm having problems with the spaces and the parentheses that I
> somehow can't use in the matching...
> Any idea how to split the string in the appropriate parts?
>
> Many thanks,
> Bastiaan
>
> --
> Bastiaan Wakkie <bastiaaw(at)dds(dot)nl>
> www.syrphidae.com

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