Re: Regular Expression just one step away from what I need....

On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 12:00 -0500, Jay Blanchard wrote: > Given the string 'foo''bar''glorp' (all quotes are single > quotes)I had > hoped to find a regular expression using preg_match that would return an > array containing just those words without having to go through > additional gyrations, like exploding a string to get an array. I have > only had limited luck > > $theString = "'foo''bar''glorp'"; > preg_match( "/\'(.*)\'/", $theString, $matches); > print_r($matches); You want to add the ungreedy modifier... preg_match( "/\'(.*)\'/U", $theString, $matches); Cheers, Rob. -- ........................................................... SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com Leveraging the buying power of the masses! ...........................................................