PHP - Moved: Filter Number From String, Except When Between Curly Braces

I didn't know how to describe this, so please excuse my title.

As most of you know, this is possible:
foreach($items as $key => $item)
{
${$key} = $item;
}

// I would then be able to access it like so:
$key // or whatever the value of "$key" is.

However, how could I append something extra to the ${$key} variable?

Instance:
foreach($items as $key => $item)
{
$my_{$key} = $item;
        // or 
        ${$key}_arr = $item;
}

// So that the end result of my variable becomes like so:
$my_key 
// or
$key_arr
// Instead of just
$key // or whatever the value of "$key" is.

Is there a known method for this?

Any input is appreciated, thank you.

Hi Guys

I am having trouble with a mysql regexp expression called through php.  I am not sure but I suspect its to do with the {} in the mysql code and PHP parsing them incorrectly.

Here is my code snippet:

$q = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['keyword']);
$limit = 10;  //limit number of responses from dictionary            
$remainder = 11 - strlen($q);
if ($q)
{
$qy = "SELECT * FROM dict_list WHERE UCASE(word) <> UCASE('$q') AND (word REGEXP '^$q.{$remainder}') LIMIT $limit";
$query = mysql_query($qy);
 
...

What I want to do is this:

a user types in a word.  I then want to query a dictionary table called dict_list for all matches of the this word up to 11 characters max.

Example:

if $q was the word aero then the response would be all words beginning with aero and up to a max of 11 characters.  That is why IU thought I could calculate length of $q and from this get the $remainder = 11 - strlen($q) then in the REGEXP use .{$remainder} but when testing if I echo out the query $qy the curly braces will not show on screen.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I hope this is posted in correct location. Apologies if not.

Thanks,

Fergal.

$text = "wow {one|two|three}fsasfa happy ness";

preg_match('/\b{*+}\b/i', $text, $matches);

print_r($matches);

Basically, $matches will contain "one|two|three" - but all I got is an array with "}"

 

Hey

I have a string that looks like the following:
Quote

top-php-tutorials-2.html


I have a script that cycles through each page. The 2 in the quote above is the page number.

How can I extract the number between the - and the .html and replace it with another number?

I've tried
Code: [Select]
substr($engine->selectedcaturl, 0,-6).$v.".html"But then I realised this only works for numbers that are 1 digit long

Any input would be appreciated

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