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DamienRoche

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All I want to do is find a match in a string - the whole string actually.

 

Here's my code:

 

<?php
$str = 'echo"<b>Hello the World!<\b>"';

if(!preg_match("#echo\"<\b>Hello the World!<\/\b>\"#", $str, $match))
{
echo "<br><b>Couldn't find:</b>".htmlentities($str)."<br>";
} else { 
echo "found match:".$match[0];}
?>

 

I have no idea where I am going wrong. I'm tried numerous reg ex combinations with escaping and also with the string - things like htmlentities() and stripslashes...I just don't know why I can't find a match.

 

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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Here's my new code:

 

<?php
$str = 'echo"<b>Hello the World!<\b>"';

if(!preg_match("#echo\"<b>Hello the World!</\b>\"#", $str, $match))
{
echo "<br><b>Couldn't find:</b>".htmlentities($str)."<br>";
} else { 
echo "found match:".$match[0];}
?>

 

OUTPUT:

 

Couldn't find:echo"<b>Hello the World!<\b>"

 

I have no idea why it's doing this. I can match just text quite easily but as soon as I introduce the <b> tag, it crumbles.

 

Any other ideas? thanks.

 

 

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