> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Stone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 01 July 2003 18:07
> 
> $string = "Mark's average score was 544.";
> preg_match("/average score was ([0-9]+)/", $string, $matches);
> $score = $matches(1);
> 
> $string = "Julie's average score was 10,443.";
> preg_match("/average score was ([0-9]+,[0-9]+)/", $string, $matches);
> $score = $matches(1);
> 
> How do I combine these two queries so that the reg-ex matches 
> both the comma
> spaced integer and regular integer?

  preg_match("/average score was ([0-9]+(,[0-9]+)*)/", $string, $matches);

should do it.

Cheers!

Mike

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