Re: Regexp trouble

Andy Pieters wrote:

Hi list I still fail to understand why regular expressions are causing me such a hard time.

er, because they are hard? hey you failed! we have a club :-)

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})'

I always use the preg_*() functions myself. and I always have to specify regexp delimiters ... $re = "#^([\w]{3,3})[\s]([\d]{2,2})[\s]([\d]{2,2})[:]([\d]{2,2})[:]([\d]{2,2})#"; $st = "Nov 22 06:51:36"; echo (preg_match($re, $st) ? "Yes":"No"),"\n"; I ran the above and it returned 'Yes' for me.

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