Re: Same pattern, ereg_replace catches it, ereg doesn't

* Thus wrote Reuben D. Budiardja (reubendb@innovativethought.com): > > Hi all, > My guess is I miss something really dumb, but here is my problem. I want to > use ereg to find some pattern, but it doesn't seems to work. The same pattern > uses with ereg_replace, works fine and replaced the pattern. Here is my code, > and the output: > > <? > $string = "This is a %ANS[1] test, and %ANS[2] test, and %ANS[10], test"; > echo "String is: $string\n"; > > $pattern = "%ANS[[0-9]+]"; Should be: '%ANS\[[0-9]+\]' note also the single quote to avoid needing to avoid escaping the escape: what you have i think would match: %ANS9 or %ANS+ I'm not sure how the nested character classes work with ereg. Also I would look at the PCRE functions, they are in general faster than the standard ereg* functions. Unless you require a POSIX compatible script. HTH, Curt -- "I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure."