Re: ereg parse error problem

Hi Lara, The problem isn't with the if(ereg) line, its the line above. Put a semi-colon at the end of your $string = "..[snip].." line Cheers -------------------------------- - -- - - - Philip Murray - Senior Systems Engineer webmaster@open2view.com - Open2View.com http://www.open2view.com ------------- - -- - - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lara J. Fabans" <lara@lodestone-sw.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 1:59 PM Subject: [PHP] ereg parse error problem > Hi, friends, > > I'm receiving a parse error on the if (ereg... ) > lines of this code. I looked at the online manual and modeled my two > ereg's after it. > When I kept getting parse errors, I decided to copy the original from the > manual into > my code, and it too received a parse error. > > Can someone please help me resolve this? > > Thank you, > > Lara > > > --------- > <?php > > $string = "&lt;a > href=&quot;http://www.qksrv.net/click-297915-361662&quot; > target=&quot;_top&quot; &gt; &lt;img > > src=&quot;http://www.123posters.com/images/m-mase01.jpg&quot; > alt=&quot;Mase Necklace&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img > > src=&quot;http://www.qksrv.net/image-297915-361662&quot; > height=&quot;1&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; > border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;" > > if (ereg ("([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{1,2})-([0-9]{1,2})", $string, $regs)) > { > echo "$regs[3].$regs[2].$regs[1]"; > } else { > echo "Invalid date format: $date"; > } > > > if (ereg ("img src=&quot;(.*)&quot;", $string, $regs)) > { > echo $regs[1]; > } else > { > echo "nope1"; > } > > if (eregi("a href=&quot;(.*)&quot;", $string, $regs)) > { > echo $regs[1]; > } else > { > echo "nope2"; > } > ?> > --------------------- > Lara J. Fabans > Lodestone Software, Inc > lara@lodestone-sw.com > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >