RE: [PHP] ereg($var1."|", $var2) --> What's wrong with it?,.., | (pipe) gives an error...

Cheers! I kinda knew it , but since I did never use eregs too much (usually used already prepared algorithms) I did not notice that | is special in it.... Thanks to you all! -----Original Message----- From: Monte Ohrt [mailto:monte@ispi.net] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 10:16 PM To: Maxim Maletsky Subject: Re: [PHP] ereg($var1."|", $var2) --> What's wrong with it?,.., | (pipe) gives an error... | has special meaning (or) in a regular expression. escape it with a \ ereg($var1."\|", $var2) Maxim Maletsky wrote: > > Hi, > maybe it is obvious or something, but I cannot understand why > > ereg($var1."|", $var2) > > and > > $var1=$var1.'|'; > ereg($var1, $var2) > > don't work giving me the message: > > Warning: REG_EMPTY in test.php on line 65 > > while > > ereg($var1, $var2) > > and > > $var1=$var1; > ereg($var1, $var2) > > working perfectly? > > > I use pipe as a separator, and I though it is nothing else then a > character... > but here... in ereg()... strange things ARE happening... > > I guess that ( | ) cannot be used in ereg() (and maybe anywhere else?) even > as a string in single quotes... > > I mean even > echo '$a_variable<br>'; > would output > $a_variable<br> > just as it reads above, single quotes are NOT parsed, are they? > > why ' | ' ? > > Thanks in Advance... > > Maxim Maletsky - maxim@j-door.com > <mailto:maxim@j-door.com> > Webmaster, J-Door.com / J@pan Inc. > LINC Media, Inc. > TEL: 03-3499-2175 x 1271 > FAX: 03-3499-3109 > > http://www.j-door.com > <http://www.j-door.com/> > http://www.japaninc.net > <http://www.japaninc.net/> > http://www.lincmedia.co.jp <K<� > 6&��Ә�/��http://www.lincmedia.co.jp/> > > -- Monte Ohrt <monte@ispi.net> http://www.ispi.net/