How to ask a regex question?

Posted on 16th Feb 2014 07:03 pm by admin

Hi, I thought I'd share some of my insight after seeing too many bad questions that either get ignored, rejected, or misunderstood in this forum. I'm surprised there isn't already any suggestions/guidelines in asking regex questions.

So you got a problem with regex? Great, here's some guidelines on asking:
1. Describe your problem or background that is important to it.
2. Give sample data (the input data, the haystack...etc..)
3. Give the expected output/matches from your sample data.
4. Give the actual output that you have if you've attempted something already.
5. Provide code if necessary, if your problem concerns it.
6. We assume its a php regex related as this is phpfreaks, but you still need to specifiy (if not obvious) if you are talking about POSIX (ereg) or PCRE (preg) flavor.
7. Be patient/grateful and don't demand things. Regex questions may take longer than expected to be answered, they're tougher sometimes.

Your Answer:

Login to answer

Other forums

Posting Serialized Data Not Working
I am trying to send an object from one PHP file to another using POST. I serialize the object and th

calendar dates and hours compare problem
i have a calendar in wordpress, everything works great except that i can make 2 meetings at the same

Dump with added_funcion cl_salv_table
Hi there, I'm having some troubles adding a self defined function to an ALV in fullscreen. The thing

how to configure ADS in ABAP instance
Hi All,

I am working on r/3 4.7 ABAP system.Can we configure ADS(adobe document services)

Check Date/Time in PHP
What I need the code to check is that $reQuest is 24 hours in the past then return a time based on h

help with email script...
hey

I need help with my mail script

when the form on http://www.mcgdesignstudio.com/c

Output Buffering question
Hi all,

I've been trying to wrap my head around output buffering. So far I've found tons of

present value of sequence?
Hi

Please help me to find out the present value of sequence?

Thanks

Php mysql - select?
Hi i have this code:
Code: $iteminfo = mysql_query("SELECT desc FROM wc_items WHERE itemid =

Help: problem with Headers to download PDF file
Hi,

I'm trying to implement a script where when a user clicks a link he gets a PDF file to op