Re: Searchingfor text within a string

Could I have a problem with my ereg command? I've tried several methods if getting the data out of the string and get nothing. Maybe there's a library update or a setting in by PHP.INI file? Thanks for the reply, Pat ""Hans H. Anderson"" <me@hansanderson.com> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.10.10008260009350.2358-100000@anywhere.atican.com... > > probably something like this: > > $string = " > PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1): 56 data bytes --- 1.1.1.1 ping statistics --- 1 > packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss"; > > ereg("([0-9]{1,3})%",$string,$p); > $percent = $p[1]; > > There are also some PHP4 Perl like regex functions (preg, etc), but I > haven't used them yet. >