Re: hot to use perg_match with multi strign patern

From: Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 20:34:12 +0000
Subject: Re: hot to use perg_match with multi strign patern
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Dear jason, Is there any punctuation which is telling such as this: for yes : ye* I want to match some first parth of the words and rest can be anything. "Jason K Larson" <jlarson@candlefire.org> wrote in message news:3EB8EB38.40402@candlefire.org... > Sure enough ... I wasn't looking that closely. The syntax in the match is specific to > perl regular expressions. Don't use eregi use preg_match. If you need the > case-insensitive matching use the trailing i. > > if (preg_match('/\b(got|am)\b/i', $mesage, $matches)) > > Of course, Ernest already gave you this example. > > The preg_* functions are 99% of the time faster and more efficient than the ereg* functions. > > -- > Jason k Larson > > > qt wrote: > > It is not working to > > > > > >>>if (eregi("/\b(got|am)\b", $mesage, $matches)) >

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