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Is there anyone around who can create a regular expression for me?
I have data that looks like this:
SMITH, JOHN (1949)
I need a regular expression to return the number inside the parenthesis. Otherwise, I can just do it without a regular expression.
What language are you writing the regular expression in? PHP?
Javascript. Using a string object.
a = s.match("\\\\(\\\\d+\\\\)")
Where a is either null or an array containing the result.
Thanks!
Any way to do this
without
returning the parenthesis?
I think "\\\\((\\\\d+)\\\\)" will work.
Almost. I get something like (2104),2104
That is the way that the match function works. Just pop the value off of the array that it returns.
OK, I see that now.
Cool! Thanks!
eta: I was doing an alert on the result. Didn't realize you could alert an array!
vwbug, turning off trackbacks and pingbacks only applies the setting to new posts/pages - to turn them off on old posts:
- Go to the list of posts and tick the tickybox in the bar at the top of the list to select all the posts on the page.
- Look for "Edit" in the "Bulk Actions" dropdown, and click "Apply".
- Look for "Pings: Allow/Do Not Allow."
You'll have to do this once per page of posts, but it sure beats going into each one by hand.
Also, pingbacks suck.