Question

ok so I am trying to take a long select list formated like this:

            <option ringto="+93-" value="93">Afghanistan</option>

            <option ringto="+355-" value="355">Albania</option>

            <option ringto="+213-" value="213">Algeria</option>

and convert that to the following:

'Afghanistan' => '93',
'Albania' => '355',
'Algeria' => '213',

basically I am using a text editor to convert a select list for country codes (phone) to php array. we are talking about 225 or so rows so manually is not an option heh..

how do I use regex to search/replace the patern:

<option ringto="+93-" value="{1}">{2}</option> 

to

'{2}' => '{1}'

Answer 1

Search for

^\s*<option ringto="[^"]*" value="(\d+)">([^<]*).*$

and replace all with

'\2' => '\1',

Let’s hope you’re using a text editor with Perl-compatible regular expression support.