ereg() is deprecated?

[random1]

I have the follwoing line:

 

ereg('[^0-9][a-z]*-*\ *[a-z]*\ *[a-z]*', $s_browser, $r );

 

It needs to be updated to 'preg_match()'.

 

Any ideas of what needs to be done? I have tried:

 

preg_match('/[^0-9][a-z]*-*\ *[a-z]*\ *[a-z]*/', $s_browser, $r );

[.josh]

assuming your pattern was matching what it was supposed to in the first place, that's right.  Though it would help if you told us the context of what it's supposed to be matching ($s_browser)

[random1]

it extracts just the browser name from the string $s_browser

 

My current code is now:

 

		preg_match('/[^0-9][a-z]*-*\ *[a-z]*\ *[a-z]*/', $s_browser, $r);
		$s_browser = $r[0];
		$version_number = $this->browserVersion( $browser_user_agent, $s_browser );

 

It now complains about there not being an index of 0 on the second line.

[.josh]

so the ereg version works and you didn't do anything to it to change it except add the delimiters for preg_match?

[random1]

Yep, exactly.

[.josh]

can you give an example of the content you're matching?