note 33386 deleted from function.ereg by kennyt

Note Submitter: kelly at expresscopy dot com ---- I wanted to match zero or more whitespaces in a row, between two strings. Thought this might save somebody some pain: $myVar = "lefttext \n\t \r \n righttext"; The middle is just garbage whitespace, which can be different in different situations (in my case, I'm parsing PDFs for metadata). if(ereg("lefttext( |\n|\t|\r)*righttext",$myVar)) { echo("Validates!\n"); } else { echo("Does NOT validate.\n"); } The working part of the phrase is ( |\n|\t|\r)* - matches zero or more whitespaces.