Posted by gosha bine on 06/11/07 13:01

On 10.06.2007 14:36 Sergei Shelukhin wrote:
> Hi.
> I need to handle warnings in incorrect regular expressions executed
> using preg_match.
> Warnings shouldn't appear, instead I want to output some generic
> message like: "Bad regex: $regex" and also do a database change.
> I tried using try-catch but warnings are not caught.
> What do I do?
>

The "natural" way is to use exceptions. First, install generic
errors-to-exceptions handler (see Exceptions man page). Then, just
enclose preg code in a try-catch block:

try {
preg_match($regex, ...)
} catch(ErrorException $e) {
echo "Bad regex: $regex";
}

--
gosha bine

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