Re: Pattern Capture
| From: | Chris Boget | Date: | Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:34:04 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Pattern Capture | ||
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> Ok, I feel really lame for asking this, but I can I do this in PHP:
> $userid =~ /([\D]+)/;
> $baseName = $1;
> It seems like "Pattern Capture" is not the right term for the similar
> function in PHP. I'm not sure what to search for.
Look at the third argument for the preg_match() function. I believe
some of the other regular expression functions have similar arguments
as well.
Chris