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@NogDogAug 13.2008 — #You can manually escape them with backslashes:
A possible alternative (probably not needed here but possibly useful in other circumstances) is the preg_quote() function:
Escaping braces in PCRE
I am trying to use curly braces in a custom markup, using preg_replace to convert them into the final HTML, but I keep getting rewarded with error messages.
The basic search string I’m working with is /{{(.+?)}}{/ which should match any string of the format “{{foo}}{“. Deleting the final two braces allows it to match “{{foo}}” just fine, otherwise I am told:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘}’
I therefore conclude that PCRE thinks I’m trying to start a quantifier, and I wouldn’t blame it, except it gives exactly the same error if I escape { with .
Any help with this will be fantastically appreciated. I’ve been working on this preg_replace array for days, and I don’t think there’s any part of it that hasn’t caused my consternation. Thank you in advance!
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@NogDogAug 13.2008 — #You can manually escape them with backslashes:[code=php]
$regexp = '/{{(.+?)}}/';
[/code]A possible alternative (probably not needed here but possibly useful in other circumstances) is the preg_quote() function:
[code=php]
$regexp = '/' . preg_quote('{{'} . '(.+?)' . preg_quote('}}') . '/';
[/code]