Andy Pieters wrote: > > Err.. why NOT use character classes? What is easier [0-9] or \d or maybe > [a-zA-Z] or [\w], ... ? >
Well, first of all the square brackets in [\w] aren't needed, \w already means 'any "word" character'. Secondly, [a-zA-Z] is not the same as \w: " A "word" character is any letter or digit or the underscore character, that is, any character which can be part of a Perl "word". The definition of letters and digits is controlled by PCRE's character tables, and may vary if locale-specific matching is taking place (see "Locale support" above). For example, in the "fr" (French) locale, some character codes greater than 128 are used for accented letters, and these are matched by \w. " [http://www.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.syntax.php] Anyway I'm not really a great RegExp expert, a good starting point for understanding regexp and PHP is, as usual, the manual: http://www.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.syntax.php Bye! -- tradeOver | http://www.tradeover.net ...ready to become the King of the World? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
