Re: why does eregi match for whitespace when there is none?
| From: | rija | Date: | Fri, 01 Nov 2002 05:47:50 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: why does eregi match for whitespace when there is none? | ||
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I don't think that eregi or ereg consider "\s" as whitespace-
Instead, use " " or "\040"-
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter J. Schoenster" <peter@schoenster.com>
To: <php-general@lists.php.net>
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 4:44 PM
Subject: [PHP] why does eregi match for whitespace when there is none?
> Here is the example:
>
> <?php
>
> $string = 'asfddsaz';
>
> if (eregi('\s', $string)) {
> echo "Whitespace present";
> }else {
> echo "NO Whitespace present";
> }
> ?>
>
> Why does the above return true? There is no whitespace in the string.
> What am I missing?
>
> Peter
>
>
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