Re: preg_match

On Fri, August 19, 2005 6:32 am, John Nichel wrote: > Richard Lynch wrote: >> On Thu, August 18, 2005 2:50 pm, Jon wrote: >> >>>preg_match_all("/Charges \s\s+ $total x (.+) /siU", $single, >>>$from_invoice); >> >> >> I would recommend using \\s instead of \s -- While \s doesn't have >> any >> meaning in PHP strings, so PHP just figures you must have meant \\s > <snip> > > But in perl type regex's, the \s is a space. Without testing it, I > don't think \\s would match what the OP was looking for (I *think* it > would match '\s'). However, I don't understand why the OP is looking > for a space " ", followed by a space "\s", followed by multiple spaces > "\s+"....a \s{1,} would have done all that just fine. Actually, if he really needs a minimum of three spaces, as this string indicates... "\\s{3,}" is probably the clearest representation. Or possibly " {3,}" -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm