w32 Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 Hello I'm having some trouble trying to get some matches of this text[b]James Gosling[/b], Ph.D (born May 19, 1955 near Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a famous software developer, best known as the father of the Java programming language.If I was looking in a string for "James Gosling" how can I do to get that match with preg_match_all? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/31724-preg_match_all/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
c4onastick Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 [code]preg_match_all('/\bJames Gosling\b/', $string, $matches);[/code]This is very very general. It assumes you don't have things like:[code]Blah blah blah JamesGosling was a great inventor of the...[/code]It will only match the literal string "James - space - Gosling". Tell us a bit more about the data you want to look through and we can offer a more specific (read: robust) solution. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/31724-preg_match_all/#findComment-147132 Share on other sites More sharing options...
weknowtheworld Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 preg_match_all (pattern, string, $array, optional_ordering, optional_offset) Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/31724-preg_match_all/#findComment-156792 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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