> What pattern can I use to match ONLY single occurrences of a character in > a string. > > e.g., "Some text @ and some mo@@re and mor@e, etc @@@. > > I only want the two occurrences with a single occurrence of "@". > > @{1} doesn't work; there are 4 matches. "/[^@]@[^@]/" seems to do what you're looking for. In other words, match the "@" symbol where it is not preceded or followed by another "@" symbol. To test, try: preg_match_all('/[^@]@[^@]/','Some @ text with the @t sym@@bol @@@', $thing, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE); print_r($thing); There may be a more intuitive way to do this, but at least it seems to work. Regards, Murray -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php