Re: preg_match problem

On Thu, January 25, 2007 9:53 am, Jim Lucas wrote: > http://www.cmsws.com/examples/php/preg_match/example01.php The \t inside of '' has no special meaning. So you don't have a TAB character in there. You need "" to get \t to mean TAB Once you do that, you should then escape the $ with \$ instead of just $ in order to be blatantly clear, even though $% is not going to parse as a variable anyway. Also, you really ought to use http://php.net/htmlentities on any data going to the browser, as what we see and what you expect won't match up otherwise. echo "String is: '", htmlentities($str), "'<br />\n"; Finally, to be completely pedantic, echoing out raw $_GET data is a big XSS hole waiting to be exploited. Start reading here: http://phpsec.org/ -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?