At least, a preg_match_all question not strictly about regular expressions!
It's for a Word Press Plugin, I'm extending a plugin which replaces Word Footnotes with Wordpress Footnotes. Now I also want to replace some Word Form Codes (if you're interested: I'll replace Zotero Fields from Word with shortcodes from Zotpress). The string of such a field can look like this:
{ ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"klJTkj1B","properties":{"formattedCitation":"{\rtf Vivia Sequera, \uc0\u8220{}Did Attempted Rape Ignite Venezuela\uc0\u8217{}s National Protests?,\uc0\u8221{} \i Christian Science Monitor\i0{}, February 22, 2014, URL}","plainCitation":"Vivia Sequera, “Did Attempted Rape Ignite Venezuela’s National Protests?,” Christian Science Monitor, February 22, 2014, URL"},"citationItems":[{"id":1080,"uris":["http://zotero.org/groups/228165/items/U8EBSIQM"],"uri":["URL"],"itemData":{"id":1080,"type":"article-magazine","title":"Did attempted rape ignite Venezuela's national protests?","container-title":"Christian Science Monitor","source":"Christian Science Monitor","abstract":"Student protests began at the University of the Andes in San Cristobal, Venezuela, after an attempted rape of a college woman. A week later, the protests boiled over into a violent national uprising.","URL":"URL","ISSN":"0882-7729","author":[{"family":"Sequera","given":"Vivia"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2014",2,22]]},"accessed":{"date-parts":[["2014",4,7]]}}}],"schema":"URL"} }
I need to convert strings like these into (I made it bold here):
[zotpressInText item="{U8EBSIQM}"]
Note that these are inside the post. I've created the expression already here at regex101(http://regex101.com/r/jK0lU1). But I got another weird problem, so let's keep it simple. To find the beginning of the string would be:
/\{\s*ADDIN\sZOTERO_ITEM/
But I wasted 4-5 hours now because of the following. If I try this:
$pattern2 = '/{\s*ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM/';
$content2 = '[1] { ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":".... then the link ... org/groups/228165/items/U8EBSIQM"]," ... csl-citation.json"} }';
preg_match_all( $pattern2, $content, $zotfields, PREG_SET_ORDER);
print_r($zotfields);
This works. The content I put into the $content2 variable I got by printing the real $content variable and copying it manually. But if I use &content directly, it doesn't work.
The main difference is that $content DOES HAVE multiple lines. So, maybe there's the problem. But the RegEx modifiers m or s didn't help either.
Any ideas what I could try next?
