Re: Help with regex (search/replace) please

have you looked at the Pear html_QuickForm2 set?

On 2/6/2010 9:43 AM, Ryan S wrote:
> Hey guys,
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> As many of you might know, i totally suck at regex..so would really appreciate some help here.
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> Basically i have a html page with a lot of textboxes,radios,checkboxes etc
> i need your help in the form of a regex so that when i give it the name and value it gives me the entire code of that checkbox.
> for example here are 2 checkboxes:
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> <input type="checkbox" name="something" value="1" />
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> <input type="checkbox" name="something2" value="2" id="something" onClick="javascript_code_etc()" onSomething="lots of js cod here()" />
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> so if i want the second checkbox code i was thinking of something like this:
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> $the_name="something2";
> $the_value="2";
> $fetched=getCheckboxFromHTML($the_name,$the_value);
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> and then if successful the variable $fetched would contain
> <input type="checkbox" name="something2" value="2" id="something" onClick="javascript_code_etc()" onSomething="lots of js cod here()" />
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> the idea is that i would use the contents of $fetch to add some code before the end just before  the greater than symbol, and do a str_replace().
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> What do you think? Critique of my logic above too is welcome!
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> Thanks!
> Ryan
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