Re: preg_match_all question
| From: | Robert Cummings | Date: | Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:31:27 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: preg_match_all question | ||
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On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 09:42 +0000, Phil Ewington - iModel Ltd. wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Having an issue with regular expressions, never been my strong point!
>
> The following pattern only picks up one instance per line, if more than
> one instance exists all text from first {{ to last }} is included, can
> anyone point out where I am going wrong?
>
> preg_match_all("/\{\{lang:(.*)\}\}/", $str, $tags);
You need the ungreedy modifier:
preg_match_all("/\{\{lang:(.*)\}\}/U", $str, $tags);
Cheers,
Rob.
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