regular expression ending delimeter

[alecks]

As far as I can tell this is a valid reg. expression: ^/\*.*?\*/$

It's ^/*.*?*/$ without the escaping.

 

Basically its looking for (php) quoted out (using /* and */) sections in a string.

 

But when I try to

 

$tc = "/* This is a Test */ tttttttttttttttttttt /* This is another test */ tttttttttttttrrrrrrrrrr";
$r = preg_split("^/\*.*?\*/$", $tc, -1);

 

I get the warning

 

Warning: preg_split() [function.preg-split]: No ending delimiter '^' found in /path/to/file.php on line #

 

Any help?

[genericnumber1]

you have to contain your regex in delimiters...

 

you can use any characters, but it's normally easier to use characters you don't use in your expression, so you could do something like

 

%^/\*.*?\*/$%

 

% being your delimiter..