When using "/([0-9]*)(.*)/i" it matches substring 1: 7005 substring 2: -N/52 When using "/([0-9]*)\/(.*)/i" it matches substring 1: substring 2: 52 It looks to me as though its trying to match either or subgroup in order. On 9/26/05, Jens Schulze <jens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I recently encountered a strange behaviour, could someone please > countercheck it, to either tell me there is an error in my pattern? > > I have a test string: "7005-N/52" > I have two match patterns: a) "/([0-9]*)\/(.*)/i" > b) "/([0-9]*)\-(.*)/i" > I check the test string with the help of preg_match, and they both > matched, but normally variant a) shouldn't have matched. > > Normally I test my patterns with the tool "The Regex Coach", and > according to this tool it shouldn't have matched. > PHP version is 5.0.4, PCRE extension version is 4.5 01-December-2003 > > Thanks for any help or feedback, > Jens > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
