note 33996 deleted from function.preg-match by nathan

Note Submitter: paulo at home ---- hi! i just want to match a simple expression like word=number; with the equal sign and the semicolon when using regex coach (a nice little program you can download at http://weitz.de/files/regex-coach.exe and let's you analize regular expression) the string matching is ok, but when i try to use the expression in the string i get no good result... the code line i'm using is: preg_match("([a-z]+)=([0-9]+);",$string,$matches); can somebody please help me? thanks