preg_match is driving me nuts...

[plex303]

I'm using preg_match to search and find values stored in other scripts.
Specifically, it reads in ~100 files and looks for a line that assigns a value to a variable called $appname.
This seems to work fine for all of the files except for 2 of them.

The following regular expression:

if (preg_match ("/apname\s?=\s?\"(.*)\";$/",$fline,$match)){

applied to :
$appname = "AD container move";

gives me what I want... AD container move.

but it doesnt "match" anything if applied to :

$appname = "Generic Mailbox Account";

Does anyone know why???

EDIT: that regular expression got beat up when i posted it... those s's are supposed to be escaped.

[drawmack]

Maybe the second one has a tab in it instead of a space try replacing \s with (\s|\t]) which says space or tab, you could be a bit more generic, and compact, with the whitespace escape but I can't remember that off the top of my head and don't feel like looking it up.

[plex303]

un-friggan believable!
I figured it out... Ultraedit did something to the 2 offending files when the files were created/last saved... All I had to do was convert them from "Dos to Unix"
I wasted a good 2 hours chasing this... I need some sleep. :glare:

Thanks for the quick reply drawmack.