Re: Seemingly weird regex problem

On Friday 21 January 2005 01:52, Tim Boring wrote: > To try to help spot the issue, I put in the if(preg_match("/^\W+/", > $line)) logic, and the weird thing is that this logic isn't outputting > the line beginning with things like "AKRN", yet the same line is getting > caught in the switch statement and being discarded. Well the biggest problem in your code right now is your incomprehensible (to me anyway) use of the switch construct. For a start I've no idea why you're using ... > switch ($line) ... when your tests do not involve $line > case ($total_counter <= 5): I suspect what you want to be doing is something like this: switch (TRUE) { case ANY_EXPRESSION_THAT_EVALUATES_TO_TRUE: ... } -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ New Year Resolution: Ignore top posted posts