note 55149 added to function.preg-match

Watch out when using c-style comments around a preg_match or preg_* for that matter. In certain situations (like example below) the result will not be as expected. This one is of course easy to catch but worth noting. /* we will comment out this section if (preg_match ("/anything.*/", $var)) { code here; } */ This is (I believe) because comments are interpreted first when parsing the code (and they should be). So in the preg_match the asterisk (*) and the ending delimiter (/) are interpreted as the end of the comment and the rest of your (supposedly commented) code is intrepreted as php. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+55149 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55149&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55149&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55149&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55149&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55149&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55149&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+55149&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php