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Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney on 09/25/28 11:24
* John Nichel <john@kegworks.com> :
> Richard Lynch wrote:
> > On Thu, August 18, 2005 2:50 pm, Jon wrote:
> > > preg_match_all("/Charges \s\s+ $total x (.+) /siU", $single,
> > > $from_invoice);
> >
> > I would recommend using \\s instead of \s -- While \s doesn't have any
> > meaning in PHP strings, so PHP just figures you must have meant \\s
> <snip>
>
> But in perl type regex's, the \s is a space. Without testing it, I
> don't think \\s would match what the OP was looking for (I *think* it
> would match '\s'). However, I don't understand why the OP is looking
> for a space " ", followed by a space "\s", followed by multiple spaces
> "\s+"....a \s{1,} would have done all that just fine.
But in double quotes, \ is seen as an escape, and could be interpreted
differently. Probably the better way to do this would be:
$pattern = '/Charges\s+' . $total . ' x ([^\s]*)/si';
preg_match_all($pattern, $single, $from_invoice);
--
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
Zend Certified Engineer
http://weierophinney.net/matthew/
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