ereg -> preg_match

[offspring86]

Hi,
i have sth like this:

ereg('([-d][rwxst-]+).* ([0-9]) ([a-zA-Z0-9]+).* ([a-zA-Z0-9]+).* ([0-9]*) ([a-zA-Z]+[0-9: ]*[0-9]) ([0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}) (.+)', $string, $array)

but it's deprecated.

Can someone, please, convert it to preg_match for me, and describe some basic procedure how he/she's achieved it?

Thanks a lot in advance

[laserlight]

In this case, the conversion looks trivial:

preg_match('/([-d][rwxst-]+).* ([0-9]) ([a-zA-Z0-9]+).* ([a-zA-Z0-9]+).* ([0-9]*) ([a-zA-Z]+[0-9: ]*[0-9]) ([0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}) (.+)/', $string, $array)

Besides changing the function name, the only thing necessary was to add the pattern delimiters, and I chose the traditional forward slashes since there were no such characters already present in the pattern.