note 84798 modified in function.preg-quote by yannick

To prevent any problems, try to always use a delimiter that will *almost* not be used inside the regex, such as ` (back quote) for example: instead of <?php preg_match('/foo\/bar\//',$somevar); ?> use <?php preg_match('foo/bar/',$somevar); ?> it's that simple! like this, you won't have to bother with delimiters anymore... --was-- To prevent any problems, try to always use a delimiter that will *almost* not be used inside the regex, such as ` (back quote) for example: instead of <?php preg_match('/foo\/bar\//',$somevar); use preg_match('foo/bar/',$somevar); ?> it's that simple! like this, you won't have to bother with delimiters anymore... http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-quote.php