Re: preg_match fails to fill $matches

What is the value of $trigger_string in your $ts variable? Also, try removing the 's' from outside the pattern matching in $ts. You might get back some useful information. usage: pmatch [ -cfghilnv ] '/pattern/' [ file ] ... -c : show only line count for each file -f : show only filenames in output -g : greedy matching -h : supress filenames from output -i : ignore case -l : show entire line instead of just what matched -n : show line numbers in output -s : supress error messages about missing or unreadable files -t : do not trim whitespace from begin/end of lines -v : show lines that do NOT match pattern -- Jason k Larson {R}ichard Ashton wrote:

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 10:21:30 -0500, 1LT John W. Holmes wrote:

$ts = '/(' . $trigger_string .')/is'; echo "trigger_string is $ts <br>"; $matches = array();

$hit     = array();

In the loop $hit[] = preg_match ($ts, $line_in,$matches); Now the $hit array fills up correctly, if the trigger string is on the line just read in, putting 1 or 0 in $hits. But the string that triggered the match is not put in $matches. The manual says it should be.

What's your actual code? How are you looking for the match in $matches? >If something was matched, then it'll be there.

The full cod in the loop is. $cnt = 0; while(!feof($fp)) {

    // Get body
    $line_in = fgets($fp,4096);
    $cnt++;
    // looking for the other end of the marker found above
    if (substr($line_in,2,strlen($line_in)-5) != $marker )
    {       $body    = $body . $line_in;
      $hit[]   = preg_match ($ts, $line_in,$matches);
      $line[]  = $line_in;
      $char    = substr($line_in,0,1);
      $quote[] = preg_match ($qs, $char);
    }
    if (strpos($line_in, $marker) > 0 ) {       break;     }

} Later on in the code after the loop I do echo "printing array matches <br>"; print_r ($matches);echo "<br>"; echo "printing array hit <br>"; print_r ($hit); echo "printing array quote <br>"; print_r ($quote); echo "printing array lins <br>"; print_r ($line); $lcnt = count($line); echo "cnt of line array is $lcnt <br>"; $hcnt = count($hit); echo "cnt of hit array is $hcnt <br>"; $qcnt = count($quote); echo "cnt of quote array is $qcnt <br>"; $mcnt = count($matches); echo "cnt of matches array is $mcnt <br>"; the arrays $hit and $line and $quote all print data, and all the count($array) print a value except the $matches array and count are empty. {R}