minimal matching in reg.expr.
| From: | Michael Schueller | Date: | Thu, 22 Jul 1999 08:45:49 +0000 |
| Subject: | minimal matching in reg.expr. | ||
| Groups: | php.dev | ||
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Hi,
how can I match minimally in reg.exp.? (like in Perl by e.g. ".*?" )
in Perl I would do the following:
$a = "abcabc";
$a =~ s/a.*?c/d/;
(--> $a == "dabc")
in PHP this doesn't work (Warning: REG_BADRPT in ...).
Regards,
Michael
(PHP 3.0.7, LINUX RedHat 5.1, Kernel 2.0.34)