Richard Lynch wrote:
On Fri, August 19, 2005 7:03 am, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
* 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*
But Perl isn't going to *SEE* \\s !!!
PHP is going to *EAT* \\ and make \ out of it.
That's why \ is an escape character in PHP.
It's also an escape character in Perl/PCRE.
Some days I think PHP's escape character should have been | or
something, just so this topic wouldn't come up every damn month.
<snip>
Personally, I have never used \\ in PCRE when looking for things like
spaces (\s), word boundraries (\b), etc. and it's all worked out fine.
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