Made sense. Thanks for your help.
Greg Beaver wrote:
hi Gerard,
I didn't think you were complaining :)
the problem is in [/url]
$foo = '/\[url\]([a-z]+://.*?)\[/url\]/';
should be
$foo = '/\[url\]([a-z]+://.*?)\[\/url\]/';
that "/" was ending the pattern, and so preg_* was trying to read "url\]/"
as closing information, and probably giving an odd error about "u" not being
appropriate
that's why # worked, because there were no other # in the string.
Hope that answers the question (properly this time!)
Take care,
Greg
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerard Samuel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Greg Beaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: Dynamic Regex
What you suggested is what I was trying before. My original example
was incorrect.
Here is an good example for the variable holding the pattern ->
$foo = '/\[url\]([a-z]+://.*?)\[/url\]/';
This pattern would not work, but if I change it to
$foo = '#\[url\]([a-z]+://.*?)\[/url\]#';
It does work.
Not complaining but just trying to figure out why the first version
doesn't work for future references.
Thanks
Greg Beaver wrote:
Hi Gerard,
all the preg_* functions require delimiters surrounding regular
expressions.
$foo = '\[this\](.*?)that';
should be by default:
$foo = '/\[this\](.*?)that/';
the code you tried uses # as the delimiter instead of /, an option preg_*
allows
Take care,
Greg
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"Gerard Samuel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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The example doesn't have to make sense, but Im looking for the correct
syntax for $foo. I was trying ->
$foo = '\[this\](.*?)that';
$bar = 'the other';
$str = preg_replace($foo, $bar, $other_string);
But that doesn't work. I came across an example where the syntax of
$foo is in ->
$foo = '#\[this\](.*?)that#';
The second syntax of $foo works. I was wondering on the meaning of # in
the string??
Thanks
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