Parsing CSS by regex

Question

I\'m creating a CSS editor and am trying to create a regular expression that can get data from a CSS document. This regex works if I have one property but I can\'t get it to

Answer 1

I would recommend against using regex's to parse CSS - especially in single regex!

If you insist on doing the parsing in regex's, split it up into sensible sections - use one regex to split all the body{..} blocks, then another to parse the color:rgb(1,2,3); attributes.

If you are actually trying to write something "useful" (not trying to learn regular expressions), look for a prewritten CSS parser.

I found this cssparser.php which seems to work very well:

$cssp = new cssparser;
$cssp -> ParseStr("body { background: #f00;font: 12px Arial; }");
print_r($cssp->css);

..which outputs the following:

Array
(
    [body] => Array
        (
            [background] => #f00
            [font] => 12px arial
        )
)

The parser is pretty simple, so should be easy to work out what it's doing. Oh, I had to remove the lines that read if($this->html) {$this->Add("VAR", "");} (it seems to be a debugging thing that was left in)

I've mirrored the script here, with the above changes in