Unknown modifier definitely has to do with the regular expression. Don't
regex's need a beginning and ending delimeter apart from the quote?
"/(\")(.(\/))*[A-Z0-9_\/-]+(.gif|.jpg)/"
Maybe that's it? But if so I dunno why the other one would be working.
-Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jennifer Swofford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 2:20 PM
Subject: [PHP] eregi_replace / preg_match_all
> Why does this work:
>
> $contents =
> eregi_replace("(\")(.(/))*[A-Z0-9_/-]+(.gif|.jpg)",
> "\"blah.gif", $contents);
>
> But this does not:
>
> preg_match_all("(\")(.(/))*[A-Z0-9_/-]+(.gif|.jpg)",
> $contents, $matches);
>
> for ($i=0; $i< count($matches[0]); $i++) {
> echo "matched: ".$matches[0][$i]."\n"
> }
>
> I get this error:
>
> Warning: Unknown modifier '(' in
> /home/littleduck/www/www/newcontrol/temp/fread.php on
> line 20
>
> The first example finds/replaces fine. The second
> does not find at all. (If I replace the regular
> expression string with something simple like
> "(gif|jpg)" it works.)
>
> Thank you for any hints!
> Jen
>
>
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