Posted by FFMG on 08/23/06 06:28

Hi,

If I have a string:
$s = "sometext more_text hello1hello2";

And I want to look for the text 'hello', I do the following regex
search
/hello([0-9]*)/is
And I get the expected value of '1', (the first hello)

But if I do
/.*hello([0-9]*)/is
I get the next 'hello', ('2').

But, because I want find the first 'hello' _after_ 'sometext', I want,
(need?), to do

/sometext.*hello([0-9]*)/is

But that returns the second 'hello' not the first one.

What could I be doing wrong?

Thanks

FFMG

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