Re: preg_match() returns false but no documentation why

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On Wed, May 30, 2007 12:33 pm, Jared Farrish wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Can anybody spot why this doesn't seem to be working right? The manual
> (
> http://us2.php.net/preg_match) says it returns "false" on error, but
> preg_last_error() returns 0, which I assume points to the
> "PREG_NO_ERROR"
> error code.
>
> <code>
> preg_match("^ldap(s)?://[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.[a-zA-Z.]{2,5}$",$this->server)

You are missing the start/end delimiters is your first problem...

> </code>
>
> I also tried ereg(), and have searched and gone through the comments.
> Why
> would a regex operation return false?

It would return false if your string doesn't match the expression.

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