Re: Regexp trouble

Andy, Try preg_match instead of ereg. Cheers, David Grant Andy Pieters wrote: > Hi list > > I still fail to understand why regular expressions are causing me such a hard > time. > > I used and tested my regexp in kregexpeditor (comes with Quanta [kdewebdev]) > but when I put it in the php script it fails. > > ereg('^([\w]{3,3})[\s]([\d]{2,2})[\s]([\d]{2,2})[:]([\d]{2,2})[:]([\d]{2,2})' > > Does not match my query string. > > Which is > > Nov 22 06:51:36 > > Any ideas why? I mean Line start, followed by 3 word chars, followed by a > space, followed by 2 digits, followed by a space, followed by two digits, > folowed by a colon followed by 2 digits and followed by a colon, should match > that date? > > With kind regards > > > Andy >