Re: ereg / regexp fun

Dieter, There are limits. This won't work either: $hans = "index."; print "$hanshtml"; even though I'm trying to get "index.html", that's not setup well. PHP thinks I'm trying to print the variable $hanshtml, but ends up printing nothing. Similarly, Steven's regex will work for you (I don't think you need the {1}, though), but you have to make sure you are sending it a string it can work with. If you are trying to match three consecutive matches, like :a:b:c, then you are also going to end up matching name:hans or some other accident. You can either eliminate those accidents (make sure the only colons followed by a lower case letter are the variables) or do this: $string = ":a"; $string = ' '. $string . ' '; // ensure leading and trailing space And make sure that each 'variable' is separated by something other than 'a-z' Hans On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Dieter Kneffel wrote: > > Steven Werby wrote: > > > ereg(" :([a-z] {1}) ", $msg, $item) > > Well, almost. > But this means, there has to be a blank at both ends. So something > like $msg = ":a"; still doesn't work > > tnx anyway... > > dk > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > Hans Anderson ~ me@hansanderson.com PO Box 426, Missoula, MT 59806 | PHP, Search Engines, SQL (800)397-9116 / (406)549-6524 | Databases, Flash Multimedia, http://www.hansanderson.com | Killer Audio Production, http://www.goofiness.com | Minty Fresh Breath.