Posted by Mike Smith on 01/13/06 15:25

I'm trying to save myself some time by extracting certain variables
from a string:

102-90 E 42 X 42 X 70 3/8

I've been testing with: http://www.quanetic.com/regex.php
and have been somewhat successful. Using this pattern:
/[0-9]{2,}( X| x|x )/

I have:
102-90 E [!MATCH!] [!MATCH!] 70 3/8


Ideally what I want to do is update the db table that holds these records.
ID: 1
Unit: 102-90 E 42 X 42 X 70 3/8
Panel: 42
Width: 42
Height: 70 3/8

$pattern1 = '/[0-9]{2,}( X| x|x )/';
$units = array of units above
foreach($units AS $unit){
preg_match($pattern1,$unit[1],$match);
print_r($match);
echo "Panel: ".$match[0];
}

The $match array is empty.

Actually looking at the data there are so many typos (imported from
Excel) that I will probably have to update by hand, but out of
curiosity now what would be a good regex for the info given?

Thanks,
Mike Smith

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