01-20-2020
This would be easy if you did not try to make these text processing tasks "one liners" and just write
the (few lines) code to process the file one line at a time, using any programming language you like.
Basically, if you just processed this text in a loop, reading each line at a time, matching flags and setting patterns, you could have easily processed this file. (Or read the file into an array of lines of text.)
The issue, as I see it, is you (not only you, but many) are falling into the "trap" of looking for "one liners" instead of just writing a small program of a few lines which does the trick.
You are not the only person who falls in to the trap of thinking that everything has to be a "one liner" but this will cause you to waste time when you could write a few lines of code in any programming language and most shell scripts to:
- Read the file into an array of lines.
- Process each line and search for your beginning <VirtualHost tag and set a flag.
- When the flag is set, search and match the other string(s) (SSLInsecureRenegotiation ... blah blah) and put the match(es) in an array.
- Stop processing after the end tag </VirtualHost is matched.
This is only a few lines of code and is very easy for you (or anyone with minimal programming skills) to write and you could have easily written this code in the time it takes to search for a "one liners" to do the job.
I'm not trying to give you a hard time and I like your posts; but I'm just saying. For a guy with nearly 1000 posts here; you should just write a handful of lines of code and process this versus wasting your time searching for the perfect "one-liner" REGEX.
Cheers.
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LEARN ABOUT PHP
preg_replace_callback
PREG_REPLACE_CALLBACK(3) 1 PREG_REPLACE_CALLBACK(3)
preg_replace_callback - Perform a regular expression search and replace using a callback
SYNOPSIS
mixed preg_replace_callback (mixed $pattern, callable $callback, mixed $subject, [int $limit = -1], [int &$count])
DESCRIPTION
The behavior of this function is almost identical to preg_replace(3), except for the fact that instead of $replacement parameter, one
should specify a $callback.
PARAMETERS
o $pattern
- The pattern to search for. It can be either a string or an array with strings.
o $callback
- A callback that will be called and passed an array of matched elements in the $subject string. The callback should return the
replacement string. This is the callback signature:
string handler (array $matches) You'll often need the $callback function for a preg_replace_callback(3) in just one place. In
this case you can use an anonymous function to declare the callback within the call to preg_replace_callback(3). By doing it this
way you have all information for the call in one place and do not clutter the function namespace with a callback function's name
not used anywhere else.
Example #1
preg_replace_callback(3) and anonymous function
<?php
/* a unix-style command line filter to convert uppercase
* letters at the beginning of paragraphs to lowercase */
$fp = fopen("php://stdin", "r") or die("can't read stdin");
while (!feof($fp)) {
$line = fgets($fp);
$line = preg_replace_callback(
'|<p>s*w|',
function ($matches) {
return strtolower($matches[0]);
},
$line
);
echo $line;
}
fclose($fp);
?>
o $subject
- The string or an array with strings to search and replace.
o $limit
- The maximum possible replacements for each pattern in each $subject string. Defaults to -1 (no limit).
o $count
- If specified, this variable will be filled with the number of replacements done.
RETURN VALUES
preg_replace_callback(3) returns an array if the $subject parameter is an array, or a string otherwise. On errors the return value is NULL
If matches are found, the new subject will be returned, otherwise $subject will be returned unchanged.
CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------+
|Version | |
| | |
| | Description |
| | |
+--------+---------------------------------+
| 5.1.0 | |
| | |
| | The $count parameter was added |
| | |
+--------+---------------------------------+
EXAMPLES
Example #2
preg_replace_callback(3) example
<?php
// this text was used in 2002
// we want to get this up to date for 2003
$text = "April fools day is 04/01/2002
";
$text.= "Last christmas was 12/24/2001
";
// the callback function
function next_year($matches)
{
// as usual: $matches[0] is the complete match
// $matches[1] the match for the first subpattern
// enclosed in '(...)' and so on
return $matches[1].($matches[2]+1);
}
echo preg_replace_callback(
"|(d{2}/d{2}/)(d{4})|",
"next_year",
$text);
?>
The above example will output:
April fools day is 04/01/2003
Last christmas was 12/24/2002
Example #3
preg_replace_callback(3) using recursive structure to handle encapsulated BB code
<?php
$input = "plain [indent] deep [indent] deeper [/indent] deep [/indent] plain";
function parseTagsRecursive($input)
{
$regex = '#[indent]((?:[^[]|[(?!/?indent])|(?R))+)[/indent]#';
if (is_array($input)) {
$input = '<div style="margin-left: 10px">'.$input[1].'</div>';
}
return preg_replace_callback($regex, 'parseTagsRecursive', $input);
}
$output = parseTagsRecursive($input);
echo $output;
?>
SEE ALSO
PCRE Patterns, preg_quote(3), preg_replace(3), preg_last_error(3), Anonymous functions, information about the callback type.
PHP Documentation Group PREG_REPLACE_CALLBACK(3)