On Sunday 17 October 2004 03:54, Murray @ PlanetThoughtful wrote:

> In this case, I'm trying to perform a preg_match using the following
> expression:
>
> preg_match("/^\[\[ft".$fn[1].":(.*)\]\]$/m",$content,$ft);

Nearly there, except that ']' is not a special char and should not be escaped. 

> In the above example, the preg_match would be applied twice, once with a
> $fn[1] value of 1, the second time with a $fn[1] value of 2. The $content
> variable contains the string above.

Not sure why you would want to apply the regex more than once. You use:

  preg_match_all('/^\[\[ft\d{1}:(.*)]]$/m', $content, $ft)

That will match ft0 upto ft9, season to taste.

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