WHY???

Anon

I have teh string "my car is broken"
how can I display the words having a "r"?
this script doesn't work :
<?php
$string="my car is broken";
if ( ereg( "r", $string, $regs ) ) {
echo "$regs[1]";
}
?>

Anon

$string="my car is broken";
preg_match_all("/\Sr\S/", $string, $matches);
echo "<pre>";
print_r($matches);
echo "</pre>";

Anon

it doesn't work!!
I think that it's because of the print_r !!!

ProgrammerMan wrote:

$string="my car is broken";
preg_match_all("/\Sr\S/", $string, $matches);
echo "<pre>";
print_r($matches);
echo "</pre>";

cordex

Well then, if print_r doesn't work, don't use print_r.
Print_r is just a fancy var_dump and isn't necessary to the code.
The preg statement does work - I tried it. ProgrammerMan doesn't give out bad code. grin

Anon

you mean that the code would be :
<?php
$string="my car is broken";
preg_match_all("/\Sr\S/", $string, $matches);
echo "<pre>";
?>
because if it is, it still doesn't work!

Ben wrote:

Anon

If you're using an older version of PHP that doesn't have print_r, then use var_dump($matches) instead.

Anon

.......... didn't you choose a good subject?

Anon

it doesn't work too!!!!!

ProgrammerMan wrote:

If you're using an older version of PHP that doesn't have print_r, then use var_dump($matches) instead.

Anon

What output do you get in the browser? Any warnings? "it doesn't work" doesn't tell us much about what the problem is.

cordex

<?php
$string="my car is broken";
preg_match_all("/\Sr\S/", $string, $matches);
var_dump($matches);
?>

This works. var_dump($matches); is just to display the contents of the array $matches and you can get rid of it once you understand the array structure.

reagent

if you have
$string="my car, is broken";

it will match these strings
car,
broken

if you want it to just match 'car' (no comma), try this:

preg_match_all("/\b\Sr\S\b/", $string, $matches);