[RESOLVED] Slashes - preg_match

[neroag]

Hi all

Im trying to use preg_match in my script that checks a webpage for the presence of my url but im having problems with the closing tags

</font>

ive tried the following but it generates an error

<\/font>

can anyone help plz?

[NogDog]

Can you show us the actual section of code where you're having the problem?

[neroag]

Absolutley

if (preg_match("/<a href=\"www.mysites.co.uk\"><b><span style=\"text-decoration: none\"><font size=\"2\">Mysite - <font color=\"#000000\">short description here </font>/i",$data)) {

its the closing </font> tag thats creating me problems

[NogDog]

It parses OK for me when I escape the forward slash with a reverse slash:

if (preg_match("/<a href=\"www.mysites.co.uk\"><b><span style=\"text-decoration: none\"><font size=\"2\">Mysite - <font color=\"#000000\">short description here <\/font>/i",$data)) { 

PS: you can make your life a bit simpler by using single quotes around the whole regex string, since you are not interpolating any variables within it. Then the only thing you'd have to escape is that slash:

if (preg_match('/<a href="www.mysites.co.uk"><b><span style="text-decoration: none"><font size="2">Mysite - <font color="#000000">short description here <\/font>/i', $data)) {