Re: Can't escape characters in php??

Hello, Lars Espelid wrote:

Hello, I'm running Apache/1.3.26 and PHP 4.0.5 on WinXP pro. The following code is taken from the book mastering PHP 4.1 and is supposed to work: if (ereg([^0-9], "2002-11-14"))

    print "That's not a number!";

It won't work for me. I get a parse error expecting a ')'.

Is this the only code on the page? Try quoting your expression, and bracketing your if check i.e. if ( ereg ( "[^0-9]", "2002-11-14" ) ) { print "That's not a number!"; }

I have also tried other regular expressions, but almost all of them fails. One that works: if (ereg("....-..-..", "2002-11-14")) Also '\n' in an echo-expression won't work. It is ignored. code: echo "HELLO \n"; echo "WORLD"; result: HELLO WORLD

What did you expect this to do? Most, if not all browsers don't start a new line when they encounter a new line or carrige return unless it's encased by <pre></pre> tags. Try this... echo "HELLO<br>\n"; echo "WORLD";

What can be wrong? Do I miss a library or something?? Thanks, Lars

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