Re: [PHP] Regular Expression

[Christian Reiniger]

On Wednesday 18 April 2001 22:55, you wrote:
> >oops. The expression should read '/\[([^\]]+)\]/'
>
> Thanks all, i used this code and it works:
>
>       preg_match("/\[(.+)\]/",$msg_array[$i],$segments);

Note: This won't do what you expect, since the ".+" part will match as 
much as possible. 
Example: For "This [is a] string [with] multi [brack]ets"
it will match 
"is a] string [with] multi [brack"
A better solution would be "/\[(.+?)\]/"
The '?' after the '+' tells it to match as little as possible.

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