Putting the "U" flag seems to work, but I don't understand the full implications of using it here.
preg_match("|$start(.*?)$end |Ui", $contents, $text);Alternatively, I could use preg_match_all and use $text [1].
Thanks....
John W. Holmes wrote:
From: "Al" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I'm trying to compose a general purpose text snip expression to extract a text segment from a string.
Should this work for all reasonable cases? It seems to work for several test strings.
$start= "str1";
$end= "str2";
preg_match ("|$start (.*) ? $end |i", $contents, $text);
$segment= $text[1];
Looks like you have some extra spaces in there that'll mess it up. The '?' for example, is only applying to the space before it.
You want
preg_match("|$start(.*?)$end |i", $contents, $text);
Note that this will only return one match when there could be more, depending upon your string. If you want all of them, use preg_match_all().
---John Holmes...
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