[PHP] completely stumped by ereg()

Why doesn't this match? var_dump(ereg('C:W', 'C:WINNTTEMP\\tst5B.tmp')); should print int(1), prints bool(false) Thanks, Greg -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] completely stumped by ereg()

You should try var_dump(ereg('C:W', 'C:\\WINNT\\TEMP\tst5B.tmp')); The reason is that in simple quotes, antislashes don't have to be escaped. Still, they need to be escaped in a regular epr ie in the first argument of ereg() (the first and the secon argument are both string, but in the