[SOLVED] preg_match help please......

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advance thank you

 

hi there marsters off the regular exsprisions,

 

i have the below regex going on

to understand preg_match, im learning the preg functions for regular exspresions..

 

as you can see i have the correct result where the preg_match gives a 1 meaning a match.....

 

i used a 3rd varable to see what it has matched it shows the array as demo below......

 

q1. i dont understand the array at all, why dosent it just show 1 result and shows 2 why?

 

q2. why hasent the array got my other 3 maches in the array....

 

q3.([0-9\.]{5}[0-9\.]{5}[0-9\.]{5}[0-9]{4}) << what condition to show all off the maches on the array should i use looks like it only looking for 1 match.... there three maches....

 

<?php

$name="my name is 1234.1234.1234.1234 redarrow 4536.7867.5465.7898 7869.2343.8712.3461";

$pattern="/([0-9\.]{5}[0-9\.]{5}[0-9\.]{5}[0-9]{4})/i";

preg_match($pattern,$name,$result[]);

print_r($result);

?>

 

array result.

 

Array

(

    [0] => Array

        (

            [0] => 1234.1234.1234.1234

            [1] => 1234.1234.1234.1234

        )

 

)

 

 

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SOLVED

 

must be my zend php writter plying up sorry................

 

SORRY ARRAY [0][0] MATCHED WITH [0][1] with this pattern $pattern="/([0-9\.]{5}[0-9\.]{5}[0-9\.]{5}[0-9]{4})/i";

 

<?php

$name="my name is 1234.1234.1234.1234 redarrow 4536.7867.5465.7898 7869.2343.8712.3461";


$pattern="/([0-9\.]{5}[0-9\.]{5}[0-9\.]{5}[0-9]{4})/i";

preg_match_all($pattern,$name,$result[]);

print_r($result);

?>

 

 

 

Array

(

    [0] => Array

        (

            [0] => Array

                (

                    [0] => 1234.1234.1234.1234

                    [1] => 4536.7867.5465.7898

                    [2] => 7869.2343.8712.3461

                )

 

            [1] => Array

                (

                    [0] => 1234.1234.1234.1234

                    [1] => 4536.7867.5465.7898

                    [2] => 7869.2343.8712.3461

                )

 

        )

 

)