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Posted by e_matthes on 05/30/07 13:44
On May 30, 2:42 am, Michael Fesser <neti...@gmx.de> wrote:
> .oO(e_matt...@hotmail.com)
>
> >I would still really like to know, however, why my local php
> >installation and the installation on my shared server interpret this
> >line differently:
> >$regExp = "/^[a-zA-Z0-9_\- ]\{$minLength,$maxLength}/";
>
> >My understanding is that the backslash tells php to escape the
> >following open brace. It seems to do that locally, but not on the
> >shared server. Any reason why the behavior is different on the two
> >systems?
>
> Different PHP versions? From the manual:
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> | Again, if you try to escape any other character, the backslash will be
> | printed too! Before PHP 5.1.1, backslash in \{$var} hasn't been
> | printed.
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> and
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> | Since you can't escape '{', [...]
>
> I would use sprintf() as suggested by Toby.
>
> Micha
Thank you, that's exactly it. It would have taken me a long time to
figure that out.
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