You don't have to start with /, because you can start with |, ~, or something else
which does not appear in the regex string. The
idea is the first character must be and the last.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Rusterholz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jeff Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "PHP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] Regular Expressions.
> 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
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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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