Posted by "I. Gray" on 08/24/05 16:47

I've done a google and can't find anything on this.

I want to parse a long list of useragent strings for a web analysis
script I am writing. I could use get_browser, but firstly this would
slow down my script quite a bit and secondly I am relying on the
browscap.ini file of the newness of which is upto my ISP as I am on
shared hosting. Is there are a way of doing this?

I'd like to break down the string into it's componant parts but the
difference in strings is big. eg-

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; stumbleupon.com 1.927)

Windows-Media-Player/10.00.00.3650

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511
Firefox/1.0.4

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp;
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/312.1
(KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/312

How do I start with this one?

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