I ran into that problem also when I first tried to script with PHP.
1.
preg_match("/yourexpression/",$text,$matches);
always set the / at beginning and end of the regex (as you did in perl)
2.
preg_match("/\[/",....
this won't match the char [ because of the double-quotes (") it escapes
the [-char only "one-time" (don't know how to say that)
to get it working as you know it from perl you have to escape it twice:
preg_match("/\\[/"...
3.
AFAIK the pattern-modifier /g is always set! Use the LIMIT parameter to
avoid /g
there have been some more problems during my transition, but I don't
remember all of them...
read the user comments on the documention on php.net, they are very helpful
hope I could help
Stefan Rusterholz, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 2:37 PM
Subject: [PHP] Regular Expressions.
I'm trying to port over some Perl to PHP and have come to a string of
regular expressions like this. There are probably 30 of them:
$message =~ s~\[color=([\w#]+)\](.*?)\[/color\]~<font
color="$1">$2</font>~isg;
$message =~ s~\[black\](.*?)\[/black\]~<font color=000000>$1</font>~isg;
$message =~ s~\[white\](.*?)\[/white\]~<font color=FFFFFF>$1</font>~isg;
How can I accomplish the same in PHP?
$message = preg_match ("\[color=([\w#]+)\](.*?)\[/color\]", "<font
color="$1">$2</font>")
I was thinking that is how it would be done but I am getting errors.
Jeff
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