Regex to parse define() contents, possible?

Question

I am very new to regex, and this is way too advanced for me. So I am asking the experts over here.

Problem I would like to retrieve the constants /

Answer 1

You might not need to go overboard with the regex complexity - something like this will probably suffice

 /DEFINE\('(.*?)',\s*'(.*)'\);/

Here's a PHP sample showing how you might use it

$lines=file("myconstants.php");
foreach($lines as $line) {
    $matches=array();
    if (preg_match('/DEFINE\(\'(.*?)\',\s*\'(.*)\'\);/i', $line, $matches)) {
        $name=$matches[1];
        $value=$matches[2];

        echo "$name = $value\n";
    }

}