Bug #14723 Updated: ereg doesn't match correct

ID: 14723 User updated by: sow.olivier@alias.fr Reported By: sow.olivier@alias.fr Status: Bogus Bug Type: *Regular Expressions Operating System: WIN2K PHP Version: 4.0.5 New Comment: sorry, i finally found my error i look result on HTML page and there are more than one space between each word, in HTML page some space look like one space ;( thanx for your help Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-12-27 13:01:21] mfischer@php.net Please ask support questions at php-general@lists.php.net . Hint: You may want to use preg_match or even skip the regex part and use explode/split on (white)spaces. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-12-27 10:26:49] sow.olivier@alias.fr I try to build an expression to get the File Name from a string given by ftp_rawlist() $pFile="-rwxrwxrwx 1 owner group 35087 Aug 13 1999 Copy of fupgrade.asf"; ereg("^.+ ([0-9]) .+ ([0-9]+) (.+) ([0-9][0-9]) ([0-9][0-9](:*)[0-9][0-9]) (.+)$",$pFile, $regs); this expression doesn't return match i try this one: ereg("^.+ ([0-9]) .+ ([0-9]+) (.+) ([0-9][0-9]) ([0-9]+) (.+)$",$pFile, $regs); but doesn't work too the first expression works on these string: "-rwxrwxrwx 1 owner group 3163 Dec 27 14:18 Read me & me.txt" "drwxrwxrwx 1 owner group 0 Dec 27 14:06 test2" but if i replace the hour by the year (as do ftp_rawlist()) that not work even with the second expression ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=14723&edit=1