preg_match

[Nel]

Please can someone help me with this before I explode!!! (no pun intended)

<?php
// EXAMPLE 1
$text = "This is Driving me mad";
$check = "Driving";
$ss = "([ ][0-9a-zA-Z ½\',\.]{0,30}".$check."[0-9a-zA-Z ½\',\.]{0,30}[ ])";
preg_match($ss,$text,$check);
echo "result = $check[0]"; //gives a result

echo "<br>";

// EXAMPLE 2
$text = "This is Driving me mad";
$check = "driving"; // NOTE CHANGE Driving to driving
$ss = "([ ][0-9a-zA-Z ½\',\.]{0,30}".$check."[0-9a-zA-Z ½\',\.]{0,30}[ ])";
preg_match($ss,$text,$check);
echo "result = $check[0]"; // gives nothing.

?>
According to php.net /i is required to make it case sensitive, so why is
this happening?!?!

Nel.

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Nel wrote:

Please can someone help me with this before I explode!!! (no pun intended)

$check = "Driving";
$ss = "([ ][0-9a-zA-Z ½\',\.]{0,30}".$check."[0-9a-zA-Z ½\',\.]{0,30}[ ])";
preg_match($ss,$text,$check);

$check = "driving"; // NOTE CHANGE Driving to driving
$ss = "([ ][0-9a-zA-Z ½\',\.]{0,30}".$check."[0-9a-zA-Z ½\',\.]{0,30}[ ])";
preg_match($ss,$text,$check);

According to php.net /i is required to make it case sensitive, so why is
this happening?!?!

Becuase you don't have it there???

$ss = "`([ ][0-9a-zA-Z ½\',\.]{0,30}".$check."[0-9a-zA-Z ½\',\.]{0,30}[
])`i";

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[Nel]

"Justin Koivisto" <sp**@koivi.com> wrote in message
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Nel wrote:

Please can someone help me with this before I explode!!! (no pun intended)
$check = "Driving";
$ss = "([ ][0-9a-zA-Z ½\',\.]{0,30}".$check."[0-9a-zA-Z ½\',\.]{0,30}[ ])"; preg_match($ss,$text,$check);

$check = "driving"; // NOTE CHANGE Driving to driving
$ss = "([ ][0-9a-zA-Z ½\',\.]{0,30}".$check."[0-9a-zA-Z ½\',\.]{0,30}[ ])"; preg_match($ss,$text,$check);

According to php.net /i is required to make it case sensitive, so why is
this happening?!?!

Becuase you don't have it there???

$ss = "`([ ][0-9a-zA-Z ½\',\.]{0,30}".$check."[0-9a-zA-Z ½\',\.]{0,30}[
])`i";

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Justin Koivisto - sp**@koivi.com
http://www.koivi.com

Thanks Justin.

All the documentation says to use /i at the end of the string.
http://php.us.themoes.org/manual/en/...preg-match.php

I have spent ages trying to fit /i somewhere, anywhere to make it work.

You may well have saved my sanity :-)

Nel.

[Justin Koivisto]

Nel wrote:

"Justin Koivisto" <sp**@koivi.com> wrote in message
news:Hj*****************@news7.onvoy.net...

Nel wrote:

Please can someone help me with this before I explode!!! (no pun
intended)
$check = "Driving";
$ss = "([ ][0-9a-zA-Z ½\',\.]{0,30}".$check."[0-9a-zA-Z
½\',\.]{0,30}[ ])";
preg_match($ss,$text,$check);

$check = "driving"; // NOTE CHANGE Driving to driving
$ss = "([ ][0-9a-zA-Z ½\',\.]{0,30}".$check."[0-9a-zA-Z
½\',\.]{0,30}[ ])";
preg_match($ss,$text,$check);

According to php.net /i is required to make it case sensitive, so why is
this happening?!?!

Becuase you don't have it there???

$ss = "`([ ][0-9a-zA-Z ½\',\.]{0,30}".$check."[0-9a-zA-Z ½\',\.]{0,30}[
])`i";

Thanks Justin.

All the documentation says to use /i at the end of the string.
http://php.us.themoes.org/manual/en/...preg-match.php

I have spent ages trying to fit /i somewhere, anywhere to make it work.

It's onlt /i if you use the "/" as the regex delimiter. In my reply, I
used the backtick "`" instead (I do that so I don't have to escape all
my "/" characters.

Here's a little more reading (just search for perl regex or perl regular
expressions to find a whole lot more!):

http://www.anaesthetist.com/mnm/perl/regex.htm
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/Perl/matching.html

And the ones I'm sure you've found already:
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/referen...ern.syntax.php
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcre.php

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Justin Koivisto - sp**@koivi.com
http://www.koivi.com

[Nel]

"Justin Koivisto" <sp**@koivi.com> wrote in message
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Nel wrote:

"Justin Koivisto" <sp**@koivi.com> wrote in message
news:Hj*****************@news7.onvoy.net...

Nel wrote:
Please can someone help me with this before I explode!!! (no pun

intended)

$check = "Driving";
$ss = "([ ][0-9a-zA-Z ½\',\.]{0,30}".$check."[0-9a-zA-Z

½\',\.]{0,30}[ ])";

preg_match($ss,$text,$check);

$check = "driving"; // NOTE CHANGE Driving to driving
$ss = "([ ][0-9a-zA-Z ½\',\.]{0,30}".$check."[0-9a-zA-Z

½\',\.]{0,30}[ ])";

preg_match($ss,$text,$check);

According to php.net /i is required to make it case sensitive, so why isthis happening?!?!

Becuase you don't have it there???

$ss = "`([ ][0-9a-zA-Z ½\',\.]{0,30}".$check."[0-9a-zA-Z ½\',\.]{0,30}[
])`i";

Thanks Justin.

All the documentation says to use /i at the end of the string.
http://php.us.themoes.org/manual/en/...preg-match.php

I have spent ages trying to fit /i somewhere, anywhere to make it work.

It's onlt /i if you use the "/" as the regex delimiter. In my reply, I
used the backtick "`" instead (I do that so I don't have to escape all
my "/" characters.

Here's a little more reading (just search for perl regex or perl regular
expressions to find a whole lot more!):

http://www.anaesthetist.com/mnm/perl/regex.htm
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/Perl/matching.html

And the ones I'm sure you've found already:
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/referen...ern.syntax.php
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcre.php

--
Justin Koivisto - sp**@koivi.com
http://www.koivi.com

Many thanks Justin :-))