Re: Regular Expressions.

I ran into that problem also when I first tried to script with PHP. 1. preg_match("/yourexpression/",$text,$matches); always set the / at beginning and end of the regex (as you did in perl) 2. preg_match("/\[/",.... this won't match the char [ because of the double-quotes (") it escapes the [-char only "one-time" (don't know how to say that) to get it working as you know it from perl you have to escape it twice: preg_match("/\\[/"... 3. AFAIK the pattern-modifier /g is always set! Use the LIMIT parameter to avoid /g there have been some more problems during my transition, but I don't remember all of them... read the user comments on the documention on php.net, they are very helpful hope I could help Stefan Rusterholz, s.rusterholz@interaktion.ch ---------------------------------- interaktion gmbh Stefan Rusterholz Zürichbergstrasse 17 8032 Zürich ---------------------------------- T. +41 1 253 19 55 F. +41 1 253 19 56 W3 www.interaktion.ch ---------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Lewis" <jeff@hyrum.net> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 2:37 PM Subject: [PHP] Regular Expressions. I'm trying to port over some Perl to PHP and have come to a string of regular expressions like this. There are probably 30 of them: $message =~ s~\[color=([\w#]+)\](.*?)\[/color\]~<font color="$1">$2</font>~isg; $message =~ s~\[black\](.*?)\[/black\]~<font color=000000>$1</font>~isg; $message =~ s~\[white\](.*?)\[/white\]~<font color=FFFFFF>$1</font>~isg; How can I accomplish the same in PHP? $message = preg_match ("\[color=([\w#]+)\](.*?)\[/color\]", "<font color="$1">$2</font>") I was thinking that is how it would be done but I am getting errors. Jeff