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Reputation: 203

how to match a particular string with preg_match?

I want to match following pattern India in the string "$str=Sri Lanka Under-19s 235/5 * v India Under-19s 503/7 ". It should return false because instead of India, India Under-19s is present? If only India is present without under 19 how to do this with regex. Please help.

It should match only if india is present and should fail if india under-19 is present.

I have written following code for this but it is always matching-

$str="Sri Lanka Under-19s 235/5 * v India Under-19s 503/7";
$team="#India\s(?!("Under-19s"))#";
preg_match($team,$str,$matches);

Upvotes: 1

Views: 372

Answers (4)

mirk
mirk

Reputation: 432

Assuming a single white space between India and Under-19s regular expression to check for that would be.

/India\s(?!Under)/

Put all together in code

$string = "Sri Lanka Under-19s 235/5 * v India  Under-19s 503/7";
$pattern="/India\s(?!Under)/";
preg_match($pattern,$string,$match);
  if(count($match)==0){
       //What we need
  }else{
       //Under-19 is present
  }

Upvotes: 1

Drew
Drew

Reputation: 4373

This does what you are asking:

<?php

 $str="Sri Lanka Under-19s 235/5 * v India Under-19s 503/7";
 $team="/India\s(?!Under-19s)/";
 preg_match($team,$str,$matches);

 exit;

 ?>

Upvotes: 2

Chris Hanson
Chris Hanson

Reputation: 2083

Matching the lack of a string in a regexp is a bit ugly. This is a little clearer:

$india_regexp = '/india/i';
$under19_regexp = '/under-19s/i';
$match = preg_match(india_regexp, $str) && ! preg_match(under19_regexp, $str);

Upvotes: 1

Maciej A. Czyzewski
Maciej A. Czyzewski

Reputation: 1529

My solution:

$text = "Sri Lanka Under-19s 235/5 * v India Under-19s 503/7";

$check = explode(" ", strstr($text, "India"));
if( $check[1] == "Under-19s" ){
    // If is in text
}else{
    // If not
}

Upvotes: 1

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