note 108117 deleted from function.preg-match by danbrown

Note Submitter: Anonymous ---- In response to "kevin 08-Jan-2012 06:11". Eval is dangerous and your comparison text better be sanitized before you even consider running it. PCRE Syntax allows for named groups, which will yield associative results. For instance <?php $str = "something"; $expr = "/some(?P<capturedname>[a-z]+)/"; $results = array(); preg_match($expr, $str, $results); var_dump($results); ?> You'll get a result set like this: [0] => 'something'; // this is the entire string contents that matched [1] => 'thing'; // this is what the subgroup 1 found [capturedname] => 'thing'; // this is what the named subgroup found. [capturedname] = 'thing'; // notice the matched index?