Re: preg_match() occurence position
| From: | Michael Sims | Date: | Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:20:22 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: preg_match() occurence position | ||
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On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 15:05:36 +0200, you wrote:
> l> for example:
> l> $mem='this is a test';
> l> preg_match('/test/', ...) should return me somehow: 10
How about this:
$mem='this is a test';
if(preg_match("/(.*)test/",$mem,$matches)) {
echo strlen($matches[1]);
}
Of course, if "test" occurs more than once then the above won't work,
since regex's are "greedy"...