2007/1/20, Arpad Ray <arpad@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
Martin Alterisio wrote: > Double slash to prevent PHP interpreting the slashes. Also using single > quotes would be a good idea: > > if (preg_match('/[\\w\\x2F]{6,}/',$a)) > Just switching to single quotes would do the trick - you don't need to escape anything but single quotes, and backslashes if they are the last character. Arpad
It's true, it works but I still believe is best to do both, since you may forget to doubleslash when it's imperative for the expression to work, even when using single quotes.