Posted by Frank Armitage on 11/24/05 19:23

Andy Pieters wrote:
> Hi list
>
> I still fail to understand why regular expressions are causing me such a hard
> time.
>
> <snip />

Hi!

Why don't you use 'preg_match'? And why do you use all those character
classes?


This:

<code>
$subject = 'Nov 22 06:51:36';
$pattern = '/^(\w{3})\s(\d{2})\s(\d{2}):(\d{2}):(\d{2})/';
if (preg_match($pattern, $subject, $matches)) {
print_r($matches);
}
</code>


nicely prints:

Array
(
[0] => Nov 22 06:51:36
[1] => Nov
[2] => 22
[3] => 06
[4] => 51
[5] => 36
)


Bye
Frank

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