Re: [PHP] preg_match and $ sign in PHP5

2005-09-06 Thread Robin Vickery
On 9/6/05, Cabbar Duzayak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a regular expression check as: > > preg_match("/$xyz/", $data, $matches); > > And, as you know $xyz means "string starts with xyz". No it doesn't - "string starts with xyz" would be "/^xyz/" which coincidentally avoids your

Re: [PHP] preg_match and $ sign in PHP5

2005-09-05 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Cabbar Duzayak wrote: I have a regular expression check as: preg_match("/$xyz/", $data, $matches); And, as you know $xyz means "string starts with xyz". But somehow PHP 5 is interpreting this as variable xyz, and gives the notice below. You can ignore the message, but now it matches everything

[PHP] preg_match and $ sign in PHP5

2005-09-05 Thread Cabbar Duzayak
Hi, I have a regular expression check as: preg_match("/$xyz/", $data, $matches); And, as you know $xyz means "string starts with xyz". But somehow PHP 5 is interpreting this as variable xyz, and gives the notice below. You can ignore the message, but now it matches everything that has xyz, i.e.