Re: EREG PROBLEM

i thought ereg captured globally, anyway, thanks a lot, u saved me a lot of stress "Zak Greant" <zak@php.net> wrote in message news:200209131628.37853.zak@php.net... > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On September 13, 2002 15:59, Georgie Casey wrote: > > input variable is as follows: > ... > > statement is > > $search = > > ereg('http://www.server.com/data/anim/(.+).gif', $input, > > $results); > > > > returns the full string from 82007 onwards > > I bet that it captures everything up to '.." hspace="4" > vspace="2"</a>' -- by default regular expressions in PHP are > 'greedy' - > they try to match as much of a pattern as possible. > > Also, ereg() only captures the first match for the pattern - not all matches > globally. To do this, use preg_match_all() > > preg_match_all( > /* the ? after the + makes the match non-greedy */ > '{http://www.server.com/data/anim/(.+?).gif}', > $input, > $matches > ); > > The second element of the $matches array will contain another array that > has all of the file name matches in it. > > Use var_dump($matches) to see the full contents of the array. Check the > manual entry on preg_match_all for more information on what is going on > in the regular expression. > > > Cheers! > --zak > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE9gmaUb6QONwsK8bIRAvj6AJ9Zo7smGSUHHB/u8d6sa1pOe8twiQCgjfO6 > PydHz4u1tuF/Oc9qxItp8bQ= > =ilHI > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >