New Line Problem

[IWeb]

Hello,

I am trying to parse out a complete line with this statement, but it does not work:

eregi("(Text\:)(.*)(\\\n), $x, $y);

//returns "Password remi" for "Text: Password reminder"
//of course I want it to return "Password reminder"

Where is the error?

thanks,

p.s. I also tried "." instead of "\n" but it does not work neither

[m_tt]

You do realize that eregi is for matching strings? I don't understand what you are trying to do here, sorry...

[IWeb]

I want to get a line out of a string that looks like "Text: sometext\n".
When I use the code in my first example and I replace the new line in the string with "<br>" and the "\n" in the eregi statement with "<br>" I get the result I want.
But I want to use "\n" (new line) instead of "<br>".

If you think eregi() is not the best solution for this, then please give me a hint whats better.

[Weedpacket]

Try using "\n" instead of "\n"
and don't use unnecessary ().

Besides, preg_match() is better...