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@NogDogAug 24.2007 — #
Probably because, as stated in the[url=http://www.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.syntax.php]preg syntax page[/url] :
So I suspect it was just treated as a literal string rather than a repetition specifier.
preg_match.. why no matches?
I have some code:
[code=php]<?php
preg_match (“/[0-9]{1, 2}/”, ’24horses’, $matches);
var_dump($matches);
?>
$matches is empty… why isn’t it matching the ’24’ in ’24horses’?
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@NogDogAug 24.2007 — #...
(why didn't PHP throw up an error?)[/QUOTE]
Probably because, as stated in the
An opening curly bracket that appears in a position where a quantifier is not allowed, or one that does not match the syntax of a quantifier, is taken as a literal character. For example, {,6} is not a quantifier, but a literal string of four characters.[/quote]
So I suspect it was just treated as a literal string rather than a repetition specifier.