Okay a little known fact that I left out ... each of the names has a \n
attached to it after the first name. after reading more I found out
about the m pattern modifier.
my pcre now looks like
preg_match_all( "/^$searchstr.*/im", $text, $array)
This seems to have gotten it.
Thanks anyway
Michael Kelley wrote:
> Hello all,
> I'm trying to do a name search from a string containing full names.
> the format of the names is "Lastname, FirstName"
> the preg expression I'm using is
>
> preg_match_all( "/\b$searchstr.*.,.*/i", $text, $array)
>
> This works great if you don't type in the full last name
> i.e. kelle
> will return my entry but kelley returns nothing.
> Anyone out there that can help? I'd greatly appreciate it. Well I'm off
> to read more documentation and see if I can dig it out.
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