Re: preg_match() occurence position

On Thursday, July 25, 2002, Michael Sims wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 15:05:36 +0200, you wrote: >> for example: >> $mem='this is a test'; >> 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"... If you add a ? after the * then that'll make it non-greedy won't it? -- Tim Fountain (tim@tfountain.co.uk) http://www.tfountain.co.uk/