Hi friends,

Is there any way I can create strings that match a given regular expression ?

I will create or choose some regular expression in the course of program. It should then generate some strings that match this regular expression.

For e.g. if the regular expression is Product[1-9]+, it should generate some strings like Product1, Product2, Product3, ...., Product9, product10, .... etc. etc.

This should be done in general. This means the script should parse the regular expression and intelligently build strings out of it.

May anybody help me please ?

Thanks

Madhu

There is a way; I'm not working out your example; I've worked one example for myself; one week before:

$comment = preg_replace("/(\[color=)+([a-f0-9]{3})+(\])?/i", "<span style='color:\${2};'>", $comment);

Above matches BB-type [color=#RRGGBB] to <span style='color:#RRGGBB;'>
Especially, note tha ? in regular expression.

Please try now, yourself, for your original problem

http://www.mediasworks.com/tutorial/

Thanks anshul. This gives me a ray of hope.