Re: eregi

In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0205021700150.17412-100000@stoic.net>, mnc@stoic.net (Miguel Cruz) wrote: > On Thu, 2 May 2002, Fredrik Arild Takle wrote: > > eregi("$start(.*)end", $rf, $my_var); > > > > And I want it to stop at the first presedence of $end, not the last (thats > > what this is doing). > > Try preg, which is faster and gives you more control (here the ? > munificence operator). > > preg_match("/{$start}(.*?)end/", $rf, my_var); Leave out the braces. preg_match("/$start(.*?)end/", $rf, my_var); -or- preg_match("/$start(.*)end/U", $rf, my_var); (And make sure the value of $start either doesn't have any regex special chars, or is using them intentionally, or has them escaped <http://php.net/preg-quote>.) -- CC