Re: Regular Expression
| From: | Paul Chvostek | Date: | Tue, 08 Jul 2003 18:39:04 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Regular Expression | ||
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On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 06:47:26AM -0500, Wendell Brown wrote:
>
> I think this would do better...
>
> if( preg_match( "/P[\. ]*O\.* +BOX/i", $address ) )
Unless preg_match does something non-standard, you don't need to escape
a period that's inside square brackets. In fact, the regexp you've
built will also match an $address of "p\o box".
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