Re: vertical word match

i though i had tried this. but, i just did again and it still isn't matching. I've read that browsers send different things for the newline from <textarea> but, i've tried Netscape,IE on windows Netscape, Mozilla on Solaris I really think what i have should work. $word gets set to (.?|\s*|\n*|)r(.?|\s*|\n*|)(.?|\s*|\n*|)e(.?|\s*|\n*|)(.?|\s*|\n*|)d(.?|\s*|\n*|)(.?|\s*|\n*|) (.?|\s*|\n*|)(.?|\s*|\n*|)a(.?|\s*|\n*|)(.?|\s*|\n*|)p(.?|\s*|\n*|)(.?|\s*|\n*|)p(.?|\s*|\n*|)(.?|\s*|\n*|)l(.?|\s*|\n*|)(.?|\s*|\n*|)e(.?|\s*|\n*|) (match 0 or 1 of anything | match 0 or more of any white space | match 0 or more of newline) r (match 0 or 1 of anything | match 0 or more of any white space | match 0 or more of newline) e (match 0 or 1 of anything | match 0 or more of any white space | match 0 or more of newline) d (match 0 or 1 of anything | match 0 or more of any white space | match 0 or more of newline) (match 0 or 1 of anything | match 0 or more of any white space | match 0 or more of newline) a and so on... the only thing i can think of is the "space" between the words that i'm not matching. if anyone can help, i would appreciate it. thanks, joe Martin Towell(martin.towell@world.net)@Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 04:06:03PM +1000: > try changing the "+"'s with "*"'s > + = 1 or more > * = 0 or more > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Rice [mailto:riceja@water-melon.net] > Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 3:30 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] vertical word match > > > > hello, > any regex gurus? > i'm trying to match words put into a <textarea> > that are in the form of a\np\np\l\e > or any combination of new lines in between, before > or after. > > $answer = "hello\na\np\np\nl\ne\n"; /*from textarea in form*/ > $word = "apple"; > $word = preg_replace("/(.)/","(.?|\s+|\n+|)$1(.?|\s+|\n+|)",$word); > preg_match("/".$word."/im",$answer,$match) > > works. > but if > > $word = "red apple"; > $answer = "r\ne\nd\n\na\np\np\nl\e"; > > it doesn't match. > > > thanks in advance, > joe > > -- > 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 > -- How do i get rid of those words in my screen that are coming from you?