[SOLVED] Finding Regex Meta Characters

[SchweppesAle]

Hi, I have the following two strings

 

$string[0] = " UA "WebZIP/4.0 (http://www.spidersoft.com)";

$string[1] = "192.168.1.1";

 

As you can see, they both possess REGEX meta characters.

 

If I where to loop through the array and test a specific string against each of these; what sort of pattern would I use?

 

 

example:

$other_string = '.skdjlfsdUA "WebZIP/4.0 (http://www.spidersoft.com)lksjldfkjsdlkfj';

preg_match('/'.$string[0].'/', $other_string)
/*returns Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Unknown modifier when in debug mode due to the . meta character within each of the IPs 
String[1] would also place additional regex meta characters within the pattern.  

I'm not really sure how to account for the additional characters within the string before running preg_replace*/

[cags]

Do you actually need to run Regex? It looks like you're just trying to check for a stristr or do a string compare?

[.josh]

preg_quote

[SchweppesAle]

preg_quote

 

Man I love this forum.  Thanks

[.josh]

have to agree with cags though...if you're looking for an exact match, strstr or stristr or strpos or stripos would be better.