On Jan 30, Rob Dixon said:
>Justino Berrun wrote:
>> hello amigos
>>
>> how would i express some where before/first and some where
>> after/later in a string for example, if (match this "-key" before
>> this "5L" ){ do the rest... }
>> on a string that look like so: $string="-key 3345 -door 3432 -5L";
>
>I think I understand. You want to check that a string starts with
>'-key' and ends with '-5L'. You'll need a regular expression with
>these ingredients:
He may not want the ^ and $ anchors, so /-key.*5L/ might suffice.
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