Confirming a match with preg_match_all

[future_man]

I'm having some difficulty confirming a match with the results returned from preg_match_all. Here's the code:

$str = "<table class=\"ProfileChart\">
<tr>
<th class=\"TableHead\" colspan=\"21\">2003 Sales</th>
</tr></table>";

preg_match_all("/<table[^>]*?>((.|\r\n|\r|\n)*?)<\/table>/",$str,$tableMatches);

if (is_array($tableMatches[1])) {
	echo "You have a match!\n";
} else { 
	echo "We're not matching here!\n";
}

It seems that the is_array($tableMatches[1]) is not doing the trick, as it always comes up as an array. Perhaps I'm confused about the way this should work.

Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks,
John

[laserlight]

hmm... what do you mean by confirming a match?

You can get the number of full matches by preg_match_all()'s return value.

[future_man]

I need to make sure that there is at least one match before performing additional operations on the string array.

What is the best way to do this?

Thanks,
John

[laserlight]

Then just test

preg_match__all(...) > 0

[future_man]

Great. That did it. I thought there was a simpler way.

thanks!