* John Nichel <john@xxxxxxxxxxxx> : > Richard Lynch wrote: > > On Thu, August 18, 2005 2:50 pm, Jon wrote: > > > preg_match_all("/Charges \s\s+ $total x (.+) /siU", $single, > > > $from_invoice); > > > > I would recommend using \\s instead of \s -- While \s doesn't have any > > meaning in PHP strings, so PHP just figures you must have meant \\s > <snip> > > But in perl type regex's, the \s is a space. Without testing it, I > don't think \\s would match what the OP was looking for (I *think* it > would match '\s'). However, I don't understand why the OP is looking > for a space " ", followed by a space "\s", followed by multiple spaces > "\s+"....a \s{1,} would have done all that just fine. But in double quotes, \ is seen as an escape, and could be interpreted differently. Probably the better way to do this would be: $pattern = '/Charges\s+' . $total . ' x ([^\s]*)/si'; preg_match_all($pattern, $single, $from_invoice); -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney Zend Certified Engineer http://weierophinney.net/matthew/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php