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OK, it was correct. I was getting stale data from a mentally challenged programmer. All is well. How do I close/mark solved this thread?

That is my actual code, except for hardcoding $name, which I output on debug, and it is correct...

OK, I am officially stumped. I am trying to match a '[]' at the end of a string. Using $ to anchor doesn't work, nor does \z. $name = "cities[]"; if (preg_match("/\[\]\z/", $name)) { // why do I net get in here?? } Thanks.

Thanks guys! It works perfect......

Sorry... I meant using PHP...

Can anyone tell me the best tools to read Excel files?

I get a data dump in XLT format. Can I parse that with PHP?

I got it... I was misreading my documentation.

Hello, I come from a C and PERL background. I seem to have trouble finding how to do this easily. What is the PERL equivalent of: $var =~ s/^\+//g; // remove a plus from the beginning, and from the entire string. Thanks.

Thank you.

I have a question on when PHP will allocate space in the code. Does it happen up front, or as the code executes? // some stuff if (some_conditional) { // something happens here and returns or exits } // we never get here $foo = array(); exit(0); In this example, does $foo get created?