Re: preg_match() returns false but no documentation why

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On Wed, May 30, 2007 3:06 pm, Jared Farrish wrote:
> On 5/30/07, Richard Lynch <ceo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 30, 2007 12:33 pm, Jared Farrish wrote:
>> >
>> > 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...
>
> Which ones? I've got the starter "^" and the closer "$", so what else
> am I
> missing?

Whatever character you want to use:

"|^ldap(s)?"//[a-zA-Z0-9-]*\\.[a-zA-Z.]{2,5}$|"
"%^ldap(s)?"//[a-zA-Z0-9-]*\\.[a-zA-Z.]{2,5}$%"
"#^ldap(s)?"//[a-zA-Z0-9-]*\\.[a-zA-Z.]{2,5}$#"


>> would a regex operation return false?
>>
>> It would return false if your string doesn't match the expression.
>>
>
> The manual claims it will return a 0 signaling "0 matches found." And
> then,
> under "Return Values," it's says very quickly:
>
> "*preg_match()* returns *FALSE* if an error occurred."
>
> If it's not returning ANYTHING I'm assuming it's faulting, but the
> calling
> the error function returns 0 (kind've ironic, really...).

Use === to distinguish FALSE from 0, which are not the same.

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