Strchr() for different characters

[autom]

Hi,

can find the position of more than specific character with strchr() function?

e.g.
i want to search the %album% tag for either ( or [ or + and so on. So i get the first position if one theses characters appears.

I need that for cutting the tag from that position etc.

many thanks!

[ohrenkino]

A regular expression allows to define alternatives as search criterion.
See the help on regular expressions:

Replace with Regular Expression – Mp3tag Documentation

E.g.
$regexp('Album (Style)','(.*)(\(|\[).*',$1) -> Album
$regexp('Album [Style]','(.*)(\(|\[).*',$1) -> Album

Or see here:

Selecting terms between interchangeable (, [, { brackets

You want to find conditionally matching brackets of three different types. That is either impossible or very verbose within a single regular expression. If you wanted to find pairs of matching simple quotation marks ' and ", that is possible in many engines: (["'])[^"']*\1 or ("|').*?$1, or some other combination of matching the start character, optionally advancing and then matching that start character as end character. Your current start character is a left parenthesis ( which needs to be e…