Re: preg_match

Richard Lynch wrote:

On Fri, August 19, 2005 7:03 am, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:

* John Nichel <john@kegworks.com> :

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*

But Perl isn't going to *SEE* \\s !!! PHP is going to *EAT* \\ and make \ out of it. That's why \ is an escape character in PHP. It's also an escape character in Perl/PCRE. Some days I think PHP's escape character should have been | or something, just so this topic wouldn't come up every damn month. <snip>

Personally, I have never used \\ in PCRE when looking for things like spaces (\s), word boundraries (\b), etc. and it's all worked out fine. -- By-Tor.com ...it's all about the Rush http://www.by-tor.com