I am trying to parse the value a doc block comment
$str = "/**
* @title View/List Permissions
* @description Allow user to view list of permissions
*/";
The code that I am using is shown below:
$re = "/^.*@title\s+(\S*).*@description\s+(\S*).*$/s";
preg_match($re, $str, $matches);
The current result is as follows:
[0] View/List
[1] Allow
https://regex101.com/r/dA7jW2/2
What can I do to get the the fill "View/List Permissions" and "Allow user to view list of permissions"?
I have tried to modify the regex by replacing the \s+(\S*).* with \s+(\S.*) and while it works to some extent, it is adding the * from the next line
https://regex101.com/r/dA7jW2/3
Any ideas will help..
Thanks
I changed \S to [^ ] and matched the rest of the string to the end of the line.
^.*@title\s+([^
]*).*@description\s+([^
]*).*$
Outputs:
MATCH 1
1. [14-35] `View/List Permissions`
2. [52-90] `Allow user to view list of permissions`
https://regex101.com/r/dA7jW2/4
That [^] is a negative character class, so you can list all the characters you don't want to match. [^ ] says match character that's not a new line.
Try
/^.*@title\s+(.*)\s*\*\s*@description\s+(.*).*$/s
The problems you are having are:
1) When you do (\S*) it stops after the first whitespace character you get to (in this case, a space), so you need to do (.*)
2) You need to handle any number of spacing after "Permissions" (spaces or return characters), followed by a *, followed by any additional whitespace before "@description"
Hope that helps