How to escape string for preg_match?

[squash]

I have a string equal to 'www/' that I want to use in a preg_match. Php
keeps giving me the warning:

Warning: preg_match(): Unknown modifier '/'

How can I escape the string so the / in www/ is not interpreted in the
preg_match ?

[tim]

sq****@peoriadesignweb.com wrote:

I have a string equal to 'www/' that I want to use in a preg_match. Php
keeps giving me the warning:

Warning: preg_match(): Unknown modifier '/'

How can I escape the string so the / in www/ is not interpreted in the
preg_match ?

Either with \
preg_match( '/www\//', $str )

or use a diffrent charcter as a delimiter
preg_match( '|www/|', $str )

Tim

[John Dunlop]

tim:

Either with \
preg_match( '/www\//', $str )
or preg_quote()
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-quote.php
or use a diffrent charcter as a delimiter
preg_match( '|www/|', $str )

--
Jock

[squash]

tim wrote:

Either with \
preg_match( '/www\//', $str )

or use a diffrent charcter as a delimiter
preg_match( '|www/|', $str )

Actually I want to use $str in the preg_match, i.e:

preg_match( "$str" , 'www' )

but since $str is 'www/', the forward slashes causes a problem

[Tim Van Wassenhove]

On 2006-05-10, sq****@peoriadesignweb.com <sq****@peoriadesignweb.com> wrote:

tim wrote:

Either with \
preg_match( '/www\//', $str )

or use a diffrent charcter as a delimiter
preg_match( '|www/|', $str )

Actually I want to use $str in the preg_match, i.e:

preg_match( "$str" , 'www' )

but since $str is 'www/', the forward slashes causes a problem

As already said: they are only a problem if you use them as delimiter...
Since webdevelopment is usually about URLs (with forward slashes) i
agree that is better to use a delimiter like | instead of /.
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Met vriendelijke groeten,
Tim Van Wassenhove <http://timvw.madoka.be>