Pattern Matching (eregi)

[Anon]

Can someone tell me how to do a pattern matching using eregi function of PHP, to find out whether a string has "bgcolor='#"
or 'bgcolor="#' or 'bgcolor=# patterns.

I tried using :
eregi("bgcolor=[\'|\"]#", $line)

or
eregi("bgcolor=[\"\']#", $line)

But no result achieved.

it seems i am going wrong in some quotes ot bracket combinations.

Can someone help me with this trivial problem ?

And also i would appreciate if someone can send me all possible pattern matching combinations possible with ereg function. There are very few listed in the PHP manual. Might someone suggest the PHP developers to put more examples there in the manual.

Thanks in advance.
Bijal Kothari.

[Anon]

Hi,

something like that must work:

eregi("bgcolor=(\'|\")#", $line)

Cheers,

Catalin

[Anon]

Hi Catalin,

Thanks ! Your solution does not work as it is, but I had to put in square brackets.
like this :

eregi("[bgcolor(\"#)]", $line)
and
eregi("[bgcolor(\'#)]", $line)
separately.

I had my problem solved somehow, still I am unclear on the use of square brackets and round brackets in ereg functions and where it is appropriate to use.

Something like didnot work
eregi("bgcolor(\'|\")#", $line)

If you have more info. on this ereg subject and its pattersn could you please send me. I would appreciate that.

Thanks once again.
Bijal
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