Posted by cluthz on 05/22/07 01:28

Help,

I'm having this strange problem where my regular expression will not match
blank space.

Obviously I'm doing something wrong, but what?

Lets say I have a string such as

$test = "my example"

then I want to search it for a string
ereg ("\se",$test)

I would expect the above to return true but it returns false.

When I amend it to:
ereg ("e",$test)

I get a true response as expected.

when I try
ereg ("\s",$test)

It returns false. (I would expect true as there is a space in the string).

Please tell me what I'm doing wrong. It's driving me nuts

Thanks in advance.

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