Unknown modififer

[mb81]

Hey everyone, I am writing my first really hardcore regex and I ran into a problem.

 

What I am doing is trying to parse elements out of a table that is in a standard format.

 

I built the regex from left to right slowly working through each pattern and I got to this point that worked:

preg_match("|<tr><td>(\d{2}/\d{2}/\d{0,4})</td><td>(\d{4}\*?)</td><td>([\d\w ]*)</td><td>([\d\w ]*)</td><td>|",$thisfile,$matches);

When I added the next section to test for "TBA" or a time (##:## or #:##), shown here:

preg_match("|<tr><td>(\d{2}/\d{2}/\d{0,4})</td><td>(\d{4}\*?)</td><td>([\d\w ]*)</td><td>([\d\w ]*)</td><td>(TBA|\d{1:2}))|",$thisfile,$matches);

It gave me this error: unknown modifier '\', it doesn't seem to like it after the or '|' operator, I tried to switch them and it didn't like that either, saying the "T" was an unknown modifer. There is nothing in the tutorials that I am referencing that say anything about it. Can someone help?

 

Thanks,

Matt

 

[effigy]

You're using a pipe as the delimiter and as the alternation metacharacter. I recommend changing your delimiter to something that is not in regex or your data; perhaps a percent sign.

[mb81]

You're using a pipe as the delimiter and as the alternation metacharacter. I recommend changing your delimiter to something that is not in regex or your data; perhaps a percent sign.

 

Good answer - SOLVED!