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[jmurch]

 

I am trying to match a string that contains (anywhere in the string):

 

'/var/iso/*.pdf'

 

I have tried many different combinations with no luck yet.

 

TIA, Jeff

 

[.josh]

just check if it's there:

 

if (preg_match('~/var/iso/.*?\.pdf~',$string)) {
  // it's there, do something
}

match and capture:

 

preg_match('~(/var/iso/.*?\.pdf)~',$string,$match);
echo $match[1];

 

match more than once and capture:

 

preg_match_all('~(/var/iso/.*?\.pdf)~',$string,$matches);
print_r($matches);

[premiso]

Just out of curiosity, it seems like you are testing if a file exists?

 

Maybe glob will help you. Given that no code was shown, I do not know. But that may be what you are after in the first place So I thought I would point that out.

[nrg_alpha]

In the event of preg_match_all, multi-dimensional array(s) will result, so one may want to echo $matches[0] instead for the desired results.