Re: Regular Expression

On Wednesday 18 April 2001 22:55, you wrote: > >oops. The expression should read '/\[([^\]]+)\]/' > > Thanks all, i used this code and it works: > > preg_match("/\[(.+)\]/",$msg_array[$i],$segments); Note: This won't do what you expect, since the ".+" part will match as much as possible. Example: For "This [is a] string [with] multi [brack]ets" it will match "is a] string [with] multi [brack" A better solution would be "/\[(.+?)\]/" The '?' after the '+' tells it to match as little as possible. -- Christian Reiniger LGDC Webmaster (http://sunsite.dk/lgdc/) /* you are not expected to understand this */ - from the UNIX V6 kernel source