Yes But that the string is contained within a much bigger string as well
I want to search for the follwong string but with wild cards for the numeric values and I would like to know the values as well. "Results <b>$1</b> - <b>$2</b> of about <b>$3</b>. Search took <b>$4</b> seconds." Where all the $'s are numeric values Henry "Timothy J Hitchens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 001001c26c2a$927a9ad0$0500a8c0@BAMBINO">news:001001c26c2a$927a9ad0$0500a8c0@BAMBINO... > Are you saying you want to be able to extract the numbers etc? > > > Timothy Hitchens (HiTCHO) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > HiTCHO has Spoken! > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Henry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, 5 October 2002 2:36 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PHP] Findng a pattern > > > Dear All, > > Excuse my ignorance but I'm STILL a newbie to this aspect of PHP. > > $str="Results <b>1</b> - <b>10</b> of about <b>14</b>. Search took > <b>0.04</b> seconds." > > I would like to look for the string above in a buffer of text. However I > would like to find it even if the numeric are different. Furthermore I > would like to know what the values are. Is there a simple way to do > this? > > TIA > > Henry > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
