Regular expressions

[sweahe]

Say I have this string:

$string = 'This is my little string, is this string problem going to be solved?';

Say I want to find all strings starting with 'is' and ending with 'string' but it must not contain 'my' in between! Is this possible directly with preg... or ereg...?

In the above example I want it to match 'is this string' but not 'is my little string'.

Any ideas?

/Andreas

[Anon]

I wouldn't dare touch this with an ereg...

Note: you don't say if strings starting with "isn't" should be matched or not (hey, it starts with "is"...). I'll assume not. I'll also assume that you want "is this string" to be matched, not (is th)"is string"

preg_match_all('/\bis\b(?🙁?!my).)+?\bstring/i', $string, $matches);

Phew! That was a non-trivial problem.