[RESOLVED] Stuck with preg_match

[colinoo8]

I am a little lost with preg_match.

I am tring to match only the first letter of a string... ie

$var = "John Smith";

if (preg_match("/J/", $var)){
echo "yes there is a match";
}
else{
echo "no match";
}

the above is wrong so any help would be great.

[NogDog]

You need to use the start-of-string assertion "^":

if(preg_match('/^J/', $var)) {

[colinoo8]

Thanks, i have started to read more about this complex regex syntax