Re: Regexp Oddity

From: Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:43:59 +0000
Subject: Re: Regexp Oddity
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On 11 Mar 2004 Raditha Dissanayake wrote: > print "Matches: " . preg_match('/((?i)rah)\s+\1/', "RAH RAH") . > "\n"; > print "Matches: " . preg_match('/((?i)rah)\s+\1/', "rah rah") > . > > > is what you should use. Oh. Of course -- I knew it was obvious! This also works: print "Matches: " . preg_match("/(a)\\1/", "aa") . "\n"; print "Matches: " . preg_match("/((?i)rah)\\s+\\1/", "RAH RAH") . "\n"; print "Matches: " . preg_match("/((?i)rah)\\s+\\1/", "rah rah") . "\n"; -- Tom

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