Cabbar Duzayak wrote:
I have a regular expression check as:

preg_match("/$xyz/", $data, $matches);

And, as you know $xyz means "string starts with xyz". But somehow PHP
5 is interpreting this as variable xyz, and gives the  notice below.
You can ignore the message, but now it matches everything that has
xyz, i.e. aaxyzbb

Either use single quotes:

preg_match('/$xyz/', $data, $matches);

or escape the $-sign:

preg_match("/\$xyz/", $data, $matches);

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