QUESTION concerning perl-like regular expressions

[hartwork]

why do i have to use "/\\(/" with preg_match to match a "(" in my string?
what i expected was "/\(/" instead.

i had something similar when i tried to check whether a string ends on a backslash or not.

can someone explain this to me?

thanx in advance // bass

[paulnaj]

In Perl, a regex is (sort of) a data type of it's own kind, and doesn't need double-quotes around it, like in PHP, to turn into a string.

So, I think it is that you need to 'escape' the 'escape char' once to parse the regex itself correctly, and then a second time to make PHP parse the string correctly.