ergei to preg_match

[lordshoa]

Need to change from ergi to preg_match if some one is good with regex thanks for any help

 

eregi("$begin(.*)$finish", $stuff, $cont); 

[scootstah]

Presumably: preg_match("/$begin(.*)$finish/", $stuff, $cont);

[lordshoa]

I am sure I have tried that and loads of other variations of it but will give it another go.

Will have to wwrite them down as I go this time as not to keep trying the same thing.

 

Just gave it ago and the output is blank.

[scootstah]

Well, I don't know what $begin and $finish hold, so I'm only guessing here.

[lordshoa]

they just hold a $var that is the start for the search and the end of the search

 

So If i was searching in a txt file it would look for the  the word start say

 

$begining - 'start';

$finish = 'end';

 

search for the word start  hold everything in between untill you find the word end from the file $stuff add eveything inbetween to the var $cont

[.josh]

Only thing really to add to scootah's code is the i modifier, since eregi is case-insensitive.  Also

 

$begin = preg_quote($begin,"/");
$finish = preg_quote($finish,"/");
preg_match("/$begin(.*)$finish/i", $stuff, $cont);

 

edit: I had edited to add preg_quote at same time as xyph's post!

[xyph]

It's probably worth it to preg_quote $begin and $finish

[lordshoa]

I figured it out was messing about and it needed the s modifier.

 

Can more than one modifier be used at a time ?

 

Thanks for your help

[scootstah]

Yes.