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Posted by "Richard Lynch" on 10/20/41 11:24
On Fri, August 19, 2005 6:32 am, John Nichel wrote:
> 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.
Actually, if he really needs a minimum of three spaces, as this string
indicates...
"\\s{3,}"
is probably the clearest representation.
Or possibly " {3,}"
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