saer Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 Heya I'm having some problem with my code, take a look: static function ripDictionary($dictPath, $regexPattern, $numKeyWordsToAquire){ $file = fopen($dictPath, "r") or exit("Failed to open the dictionary"); echo $regexPattern ."<br>"; echo $numKeyWordsToAquire ."<br>"; while(!feof($file)){ $line = fgets($file); if(preg_match($regexPattern, $line, $matches)){ for($i=1; $i<=$numKeyWordsToAquire; $i++){ echo $matches[$i] . " "; } echo "<br/>"; } else{ echo "No match<br>"; } } fclose($file); } Ok, so when I run this nothing is returned, I just scroll down to see a tonne of blankness. I think the problem has got something to do with me passing preg_match the $regexPattern variable, because if I add in the line: $regexPattern = "/(.*) (.*) \\[(.*)\\] (.*)/"; before the while loop it works just fine. Can anybody help me out, this is really annoying me. Could it be to do with the fact that the $regexPattern variable is being passed to this static function from a completely different class and .php file or that the regexPattern is coming from post data? This is the HTML file I am using to submit the form too, just incase there are any abnormalities there take a look: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title></title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body> <form action="uploadDict.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"> <label for="file">Filename: </label> <br /> <input type="file" name="file" id="file" /> <br /> <label for="regexPattern">Regex Pattern: </label> <input type="text" name="regexPattern" id="regexPattern"> <br/> <label for="numKeyword">Number of keywords to aquire: </label> <input type="text" name="numKeyword" id="numKeyword"> <br/> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit" /> </form> </body> </html> Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/221199-preg_match-wont-accept-a-variable-as-a-parameter/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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