Posted by Alvaro G. Vicario on 08/11/06 20:22

*** ctiggerf escribió/wrote (11 Aug 2006 10:41:02 -0700):
> Well, I spent something like 10 hrs farting with this before I posted.
> I guess I just needed 1 more hour after playing with it.

That always happens to me too :)


> $pattern="/href=(\"|').*?{{(".$id.")}}.*?\\1/i";

> {{####}} needed to be {{(####)}} - Not exactly sure why, but my guess
> was that it thought {{111}} was a quantifier

Yep, { and } are meta-characters and should be escaped when not used as
such:

{ = start min/max quantifier
} = end min/max quantifier

You have a full list in PHP manual:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.syntax.php

It should be:

\{ and \}




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