Hi all, My guess is I miss something really dumb, but here is my problem. I want to use ereg to find some pattern, but it doesn't seems to work. The same pattern uses with ereg_replace, works fine and replaced the pattern. Here is my code, and the output:
<? $string = "This is a %ANS[1] test, and %ANS[2] test, and %ANS[10], test"; echo "String is: $string\n"; $pattern = "%ANS[[0-9]+]"; $bool = ereg($pattern, $string, $regs); echo "REGS is :\n"; print_r($regs); echo "BOOL is $bool\n\n"; echo ereg_replace($pattern, "REPLACED", $string); ?> // OUTPUT : String is: This is a %ANS[1] test, and %ANS[2] test, and %ANS[10], test REGS is : Array ( [0] => %ANS[1] ) BOOL is 7 This is a REPLACED test, and REPLACED test, and REPLACED, test // END OUTPUT As you can see, ereg only catch the first one that match the pattern. Furthermore, why is the return value of ereg 7? The doc says it returns a boolean. To clarify, I want to find everything that has a pattern %ANS[x] where x can be any number in any digit. It could be that my regexp is wrong, since I am still not very good at it. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. RDB -- ------------------------------------------------- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML \ / email and proprietary format X attachments. / \ ------------------------------------------------- Have you been used by Microsoft today? Choose your life. Choose freedom. Choose LINUX. ------------------------------------------------- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php