On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 11:43:54 +0200, Wouter van Vliet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For my own reasons (can explain, would take long, won't till sbody > asks) I want to match a quoted string within a string. That is somehow > kind of easy, I know ... if it weren't for the slashing of quotes.
The standard perl regexp for matching double-quote delimited strings is this: /"([^"\\]|\\.)*"/ which copes nicely with escaped characters. You'll probably need to double up the backslashes in php. $regex = '/"([^"\\\\]|\\\\.)*"/'; -robin -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php