preg_match() need help!

[deep]

Hello,

this code is not working... whats wrong?

$filename = $_GET['page'];
$file = fopen($filename, "r"); 
if($file) {
   while(!feof ($file)) { 
      $line = fgets($file, 1024); 
      if(preg_match('{[url]www.mypage.com[/url]}', $line, $out)) { 
         $title = $out[1]; 
         break;
         echo "string found!<br>"; 
      }else{
         echo "string not found!<br>";
      }
   } 
   fclose($file); 
} 

I placed the http://www.mypage.com in several <a href="http://www.mypage.com">my page</a> codes on the page i enter in $filename but still i only get "string not found!" 🙁

Pls help!

[LordShryku]

If you're looking for an exact string, and have no need for regexp, use [man]strpos[/man] instead.

[pnoeric]

or stristr or even '==' if that's the entire line of code that you're after. fwiw. regular expressions are very powerful, usually too powerful. I code hundreds of lines of PHP every week and still find myself fooling around with regular-expression related functions (and being totally stymied by them, too, still!) about once a month. nearly everything string-related can be handled by PHP's usual cadre of fantastic string handlers.