[SOLVED] preg_match with a /

[treeleaf20]

All,

I'm trying to find the following in a set of data:

 

Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=

 

However, it gives me an error because of the /

 

How can I get around this and include this in my search string?

[Alex]

Escape it with \

[treeleaf20]

I tried:

 

$pattern = '/Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="(.*)\n|$/';

 

 

but it didn't work and I know it's in there. For example this is some sample data that I want to search for:

 

From: User Name To: [email protected] Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=00163631073750ac1b0475eaa507 X-Nonspam: None --00163631073750ac1b0475eaa507 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=00163631073750ac

[treeleaf20]

From that data I'm trying to find that and then pull:

 

00163631073750ac1b0475eaa50

[.josh]

Escape it with \

 

I tried:

 

$pattern = '/Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="(.*)\n|$/';

 

so...it looks like you still didn't escape it.  Alternatively, you can use a different delimiter than /

 

[treeleaf20]

This is the whole code I use:

 

$pattern = '/Content-Type: multipart\/mixed; boundary="(.*)\n|$/';
echo "The pattern is ".$pattern;
$id_find = array();
if (preg_match($pattern, $data, $id_find))
{
$id_look_up = $id_find[1];
    print "<br><br>The id to look up is: $id_look_up"; // That should be the rest.
} 

 

It echos the id to look up is but it doesn't echo the variable.

[.josh]

you have a " in your $pattern that does not look like it's in your $data