Re: Problem with matching regex against long body

[Loren Wilton]

basics of escaping at least *anything* won't do any harm
php > echo preg_quote('<font style="font-size:0px">[^<]*<');
\<font style\="font\-size\:0px"\>\[\^\<\]\*\<

Well, escaping the [^<]* part certianly will do harm, since it will turn it 
from a group match into individual characters that don't exist in the text 
to be matched.

But I've tried escaping the standaline characters like <, =, :, etc, and 
that doesn't help. I have many regex patterns without these escaped, so I'm 
pretty sure they work as expected normally, so should here too.